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Data Types in Extended Events
Today I get to talk about data types within Extended Events. This also means, I hope to be able to bring a little more clarity to the topic. To a small degree, I introduced the topic when I wrote about...
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Map Data Types in Extended Events
In the last segment, I wrote about the data types for the payload of an event in Extended Events. In that article, I also mentioned there is another component that is like a custom data type. That...
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Predicates and Event Data
At one time or another, a predicate has been the best friend or worst enemy of the data professional. If the predicate was forgotten during an update for a specific user account, then the predicate...
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Comparison Predicates and Event Data
In the previous installment, I began covering the topic of predicates. In that article I demonstrated that there are multiple types of predicates. There are two objects that fall into the predicate...
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Predicate Order is Critical
I have mentioned predicate order previously and wanted to make sure I drive home the importance of the predicate order when dealing with Extended Events. This is an important topic because it can be...
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Assembling a Session
Up to this point, I have taken a lot of time to discuss the various components of Extended Events. There is good reason for that. The components I have discussed are essential pieces of Extended Events...
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The Extended Event GUI
In the previous article in this series I shared the basics around assembling an XEvent session. The method used in that article was via TSQL script. In this article, I will introduce the Extended...
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Deployed Session Settings
You may recall that I wrote about how to look at the deployed session metadata. Today, I will be talking about deployed sessions again. And it may even be considered metadata as well. This time around,...
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Session Event Metadata
There is a wonderful amount of metadata available to be perused in Extended Events. Part of the trick is to know where and how to find it. I started to dive into the investigation of this metadata with...
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Session Action Metadata
In a previous article, I introduced the core concept of Actions. In that article, I explained that an Action is a means to attach additional data from the stream to the event payload. Recently, I have...
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Session Target Metadata
With the ability to find the metadata for deployed session, events and actions firmly under the belt, the natural progression would lead one to find the metadata for the target(s) attached to a...
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SET Operations and Metadata
Having covered the core concepts of deployed session metadata (events, actions, targets, predicates), there is one more topic to cover. This is more of a subset of those concepts in that this applies...
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Backup Deployed Sessions
There is a wealth of information within Extended Events. Throughout this series, I have been working on exposing that wealth of information. A good bit of this information happens to be the metadata...
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Extended Event Management Power Tools
So far in this series I have introduced a couple of tools that are suitable for helping with the management of Extended Events. The tools introduced so far are the GUI and TSQL scripts. While the GUI...
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Exposing Deployed Event Metadata with PoSH
In the last article I introduced a power tool that can be used to help manage Extended Events. That tool is PowerShell. In that article, I focused primarily on introducing PowerShell as a power tool to...
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Deployed Action and Predicate Metadata with PoSH
I have recently shown that using PowerShell can be extremely powerful in obtaining insight into how to investigate deployed Extended Event Sessions. Throughout the demos I have used, I hope that it has...
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Deployed Target Metadata with PoSH
Having just covered the methods to discover the metadata for a deployed session including the details about the session settings, events, actions, and predicates, I am nearly finished with the session...
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Simplified Session Backups
PowerShell exposes scads of information and provides the professional with a formidable tool for the tool-belt. Over the past several articles, I have demonstrated how this tool can be used to uncover...
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Intro to Reading Event_File Target Data
Having covered the metadata for a deployed session from just about every angle (yes there is more on metadata that could be discussed, has not yet been discussed, and that I am not planning on covering...
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Auditing Needs Reporting
Welcome to the second Tuesday of the month. And in the database world of SQL Server and the SQL Server community, that means it is time for TSQL2SDAY. This month the host is Sebastian Meine (blog /...
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