XEvent Session Supporting Cast
So far, in this series, I have discussed the means to view the metadata associated with Extended Events. I also demonstrated...
2015-09-10 (first published: 2015-09-04)
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XEvent Session Supporting Cast
Beyond the metadata in the the catalog views and DMVs, there are a few more objects that come in handy when dealing with Extended Events. I call these the...
2015-09-04
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Viewing Running XEvent Metadata
In the previous article, I wrote about getting into some of the metadata to take a peek at session metadata...
2015-09-08 (first published: 2015-09-03)
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Viewing Running XEvent Metadata
Running session metadata, while it can be still be viewed in the catalog views, is exposed via DMVs. Putting it a slightly different way, if I query DMVs that...
2015-09-03
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Viewing Deployed XEvent Metadata
Today will be the first of a few introductory level posts about Extended Events.
When dealing with Extended Events, there are...
2015-09-02
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Viewing Deployed XEvent Metadata
When dealing with Extended Events, there are a few ways to take a look some of the metadata. Not all metadata is created equal when dealing with Extended Events....
2015-09-02
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Shredding Extended Event Actions
The other day I wrote about that torrid love/hate relationship DBAs tend to have with working with XML. In that...
2015-09-01
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Shredding Extended Event Actions
Are you rolling the dice with your love/hate relationship with XML? Tune in to see how you can ease your XML frustration along with increasing your free time to...
2015-09-01
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Shredding XML in XEvents
One of the biggest pains with Extended Events is the thing we love to hate – XML. XML is so foreign...
2015-08-26
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Shredding XML in XEvents
One of the biggest pains with Extended Events is the thing we love to hate - XML. XML is so foreign to many DBAs. It's not relational and often...
2015-08-26
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UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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