Extended Event Comfort
Steve wants to know if you're using Extended Events and what you think of it.
2025-02-10
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Extended Events (XE)
2022-03-02
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SQL Server Extended Events Filtering by Database Name
In this article we look at how to properly filter out events using a database name pattern in an Extended Events Session.
2021-02-08
2020-05-14
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2020-05-07
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SQL Server Checkpoint Monitoring with Extended Events
In this article Aaron Bertrand looks at how to use SQL Server Extended Events to monitor performance of checkpoints for databases not using indirect checkpoints.
2020-03-03
Performance Tuning Using Extended Events: Part 2
Part 2 of identifying performance puning opportunities using Extended Events. Learn how about shredding XML.
2019-12-23
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Safely Dropping Extended Event Sessions
Denis Gobo shows how you can drop an extended event session without risk of a “does not exist” error: The other day someone checked in some code and every...
2019-04-15
Extended Events Workbench
The Extended Events (or XEvents) feature has been part of SQL Server since 2008, but many database professionals struggle to get started using it. In this article, Phil Factor demonstrates several useful Extended Event sessions that measure just one thing in each. He then provides the code necessary to parse the resulting XML into something you can use.
2018-10-29
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Converting Trace to Extended Events
A walkthrough of a conversion of a SQL Trace setup to an Extended Event session.
2018-06-21
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Adding Bits I
I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest] ( [insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()), [a] [bit] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOMy application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
insertdate,
a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO
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