An XEvent a Day (19 of 31) – Using Customizable Fields
Today’s post will be somewhat short, but we’ll look at Customizable Fields on Events in Extended Events and how they are used to collect additional information. Customizable Fields generally represent...
View ArticleAn XEvent a Day (20 of 31) – Mapping Extended Events to SQL Trace
One of the biggest problems that I had with getting into Extended Events was mapping the Events available in Extended Events to the Events that I knew from SQL Trace. With so many Events to choose from...
View ArticleAn XEvent a Day (21 of 31) – The Future – Tracking Blocking in Denali
One of my favorite features that was added to SQL Server 2005 has been the Blocked Process Report trace event which collects an XML report whenever a process is blocked inside of the database engine...
View ArticleAn XEvent a Day (22 of 31) – The Future – fn_dblog() No More? Tracking...
I bet that made you look didn’t it? Worry not, fn_dblog() still exists in SQL Server Denali, and I plan on using it to validate the information being returned by a new Event in SQL Server Denali CTP1,...
View ArticleAn XEvent a Day (23 of 31) – How it Works – Multiple Transaction Log Files
While working on yesterday’s blog post The Future – fn_dblog() No More? Tracking Transaction Log Activity in Denali I did a quick Google search to find a specific blog post by Paul Randal to use it as...
View ArticleAn XEvent a Day (24 of 31) – What is the package0.callstack Action?
One of the actions inside of Extended Events is the package0.callstack and the only description provided by sys.dm_xe_objects for the object is 16-frame call stack. If you look back at The...
View ArticleAn XEvent a Day (25 of 31) – The Twelve Days of Christmas
Correction: I mistakenly stated that Tim Mitchel had blogged the 12 days of SQL Christmas, and was informed that Tim Ford is who wrote that blog post. My sincerest apologies to Tim and Tim for the mix...
View ArticleAn XEvent a Day (26 of 31) – Configuring Session Options
There are 7 Session level options that can be configured in Extended Events that affect the way an Event Session operates. These options can impact performance and should be considered when...
View ArticleAn XEvent a Day (27 of 31) – The Future - Tracking Page Splits in SQL Server...
Nearly two years ago Kalen Delaney blogged about Splitting a page into multiple pages , showing how page splits occur inside of SQL Server. Following her blog post, Michael Zilberstein wrote a post,...
View ArticleAn XEvent a Day (28 of 31) – Tracking Page Compression Operations
The Database Compression feature in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition can provide some significant reductions in storage requirements for SQL Server databases, and in the right implementations and...
View ArticleAn XEvent a Day (29 of 31) – The Future – Looking at Database Startup in Denali
As I have said previously in this series, one of my favorite aspects of Extended Events is that it allows you to look at what is going on under the covers in SQL Server, at a level that has never...
View ArticleAn XEvent a Day (30 of 31) – Tracking Session and Statement Level Waits
While attending PASS Summit this year, I got the opportunity to hang out with Brent Ozar ( Blog | Twitter ) one afternoon while he did some work for Yanni Robel ( Blog | Twitter ). After looking at...
View ArticleAn XEvent a Day (31 of 31) – Event Session DDL Events
To close out this month’s series on Extended Events we’ll look at the DDL Events for the Event Session DDL operations, and how those can be used to track changes to Event Sessions and determine all of...
View ArticleUsing Extended Events in SQL Server Denali CTP1 to Map out the TransactionLog...
John Sansom ( Blog | Twitter ) asked on the MSDN Forums about the meaning/description for the numeric values returned by the EventSubClass column of the TransactionLog SQL Trace Event. John pointed out...
View ArticleParsing the sqlserver.sql_text Action in Extended Events by Offsets
A couple of weeks back I received an email from a member of the community who was reading the XEvent a Day blog series and had a couple of interesting questions about Extended Events. This person had...
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