Reading Session Data from Memory

In the last few articles I took you through a progression of working with the event_file target from the most...

Reading Session Data from Memory

In this article, I introduce the topic of reading session data from memory along with some of the pitfalls and some words of caution.
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Better Practices for Reading Event_file Targets

I have demonstrated over the past couple of articles the basics involved with reading the

event_file target along with a more...

Better Practices for Reading Event_file Targets

In this article, I am going to address some better practices for Reading Event_file targets attached to an XEvent Session.
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Dynamically Read event_file Data

In the previous article I covered the basics on extracting the payload for the events in a session from the event_file...

Dynamically Read event_file Data

There needs to be a more efficient means of grabbing the file without having to know the location. Knowing the session name should be adequate enough to parse the...

Auditing Needs Reporting

 
Welcome to the second Tuesday of the month. And in the database world of SQL Server and the SQL Server...

Auditing Needs Reporting

No matter the mechanism used to capture the data to fulfill the "investigation" phase of the audit, if the data is not analyzed and reports generated, then the audit...

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...

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...