Using SQL Server Extended Events

Discussions, examples and general news about SQL Server Extended Events from the team that built it.

I had an opportunity recently to contribute a presentation to the Microsoft Virtual Academy as part...

Date: 03/28/2012

The ever alert Jonathan Kehayias (Blog | Twitter) sent me a question recently asking about the...

Date: 02/17/2012

With the release of SQL Server 2012 RC0 you will notice that a number of new session templates have...

Date: 01/03/2012

Check out What's new for Extended Events in SQL Server Codenamed "Denali" CTP3 for an...

Date: 07/20/2011

Check out What's new for Extended Events in SQL Server Codenamed "Denali" CTP3 for an overview of...

Date: 07/13/2011

CTP3 is finally here and the crowd goes wild! Since I’m sure everyone has been anticipating...

Date: 07/13/2011

Recently I was troubleshooting a performance issue on an internal tracking workload and needed to...

Date: 02/10/2011

In SQL Server codenamed “Denali” we are moving our diagnostic tracing capabilities forward by...

Date: 12/10/2010

SQL Server MVP Jonathan Kehayias (blog) emailed me a question last week when he noticed that the...

Date: 12/07/2010

If you have not seen it already, Jonathan Kehayias is writing a 31 day series on extended events in...

Date: 12/03/2010

I’ve been generally lax about posting new stuff to the blog for the last several months, and I’m...

Date: 11/18/2010

One of the things I haven’t gotten around to blogging about yet is how to utilize Data...

Date: 07/21/2010

I got an interesting question from our Support team today and thought I’d blog the answer since it...

Date: 06/28/2010

Don’t worry, I haven’t suddenly switched the topic of this blog to English grammar, but...

Date: 06/23/2010

Extended Events offers a rich filtering mechanism, called predicates, that allows you to reduce the...

Date: 05/14/2010

If you’ve done any troubleshooting of T-SQL, you know that sooner or later, probably sooner, you’re...

Date: 05/07/2010

For those fighting with all the Extended Event terminology, let's step back and have a small overall...

Date: 04/14/2010

You can control different aspects of how an event session behaves by setting the event session...

Date: 03/31/2010

Thanks to some help from SQL MVP Adam Mechanic, the Extended Events blog is now being cross posted...

Date: 03/17/2010

If you explored extended events to any degree you’ve already discovered that when you read the...

Date: 03/08/2010

If you haven’t gotten a chance to explorer Extended Events yet, then you’ll probably want to read...

Date: 03/08/2010