Stan_Segers (12/22/2009)
You only need to set up the Event Notification for the database (or server). The stored procedure is only needed in the database where the queue resides. You could send the events to another database or even another server. Also, you are not required to use signed procedures.I did a blog-post some time ago to catch deadlocks with event notification. This shows you how to handle server level events. Deadlock Alerts Trough Event Notification and doesn't use signed procedures.
You can create the server level items in msdb to get around the signed procedure but since that isn't a recommended practice, I don't offer ideas like that in online articles. It is one way to go about it though. I keep these kinds of things in DBA_DATA database on my servers personally, but everyone has their own methods.
This is the first in a series I have written on using Event Notifications and there is an article on capturing Deadlock Graphs pending publication, though I take things a bit further in my article than you did on your blog post by parsing the XML and retrieving additional information regarding the executing statements like their query plans which are important in deadlock analysis.
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