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Fall Means Election Season

While it’s not officially Fall yet, it is definitely Election Season. Elections for the PASS Board of Directors opens up...

2015-09-25 (first published: )

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The Extended Event GUI

The Extended Events GUI provides a visual access to the Extended Events engine that can help to better understand the XEvents Engine and how a Session is built.
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2015-09-25

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Assembling a Session

With the core concepts in place as a good foundation to Extended Events, we start pushing these things together to help with assembling a session in Extended Events.
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2015-09-24

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