Waiting, is it a Bad Thing?

Despite the desire to get away from the GUI talk in these articles about Extended Events, I have so far...

Waiting, is it a Bad Thing?

One of the more useful troubleshooting tools (granted when used properly and not with a knee jerk approach) is waits. There are waits in SQL Server that are very...

A day in the Stream

Explore the little function called sys.fn_MSxe_read_event_stream and discover just a little bit more of what Extended Events may be doing behind the scenes with the live data viewer.
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A day in the Stream

Enough talk of the GUI with Extended Events (see previous articles in the series if you want to revisit the...

Log Files from Different Sources

Well, it has been quite a pause between articles in the series. It is well past time to continue the...

Hidden GUI Gems

The GUI for Extended Events offers some power to help you get started with trying to work with Extended Events....

Hidden GUI Gems

I have a few gems that are available to you in the GUI. These gems should help solidify your understanding of the tools available through the GUI to help...

Filtering Logged Data

Explore how to customize the view of the GUI for working with XEvent Log files or XEL files. This further customization does include working with filters.
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Customize the XEvent Log Display

Explore how to configure the XEvents GUI with specific views to suit your needs and tastes for data display by adding, removing or changing the column orders.
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Customize the XEvent Log Display

In the previous article I showed a couple of methods to merge Extended Event Log files. In that article I...