Intro to Reading Event_File Target Data
The event_file target is an asynchronous consumer for Extended Events. This target stores the received payload in a proprietary binary format. Because of this, one needs to use the...
2015-10-13
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Jason Brimhall
Backup Deployed Sessions
There is a wealth of information within Extended Events. Throughout this series, I have been working on exposing that wealth...
2015-10-12 (first published: 2015-10-05)
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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...
2015-10-12
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Simplified Session Backups
I have demonstrated how to backup a deployed session to a script previously. In this article I demonstrate how to create Simplified Session Backups.
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2015-10-12
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Deployed Target Metadata with PoSH
This article shows a deeper dive that will show how to expose the Deployed Target Metadata with PoSH and familiarity with this powerful tool.
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2015-10-09
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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,...
2015-10-09
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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...
2015-10-08
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Deployed Action and Predicate Metadata with PoSH
This article shows a deeper dive that will show how to expose the Deployed Action and Predicate Metadata with PoSH and familiarity with this powerful tool.
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2015-10-08
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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...
2015-10-08 (first published: 2015-09-29)
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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...
2015-10-07
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers