Lee Walsh covers ways to monitor the use of XE sessions with SQL Sentry.
Category: Extended Events
Aaron Bertrand starts a series on how he evaluated the default trace and replaced it with a slimmer Extended Events session across all of production.
Jonathan Kehayias describes various ways you can suffer (and prevent) event loss when using Extended Events in SQL Server.
Erin Stellato walks through a quick and simple way to use Extended Events and the new XEvent Profiler to review queries on your system.
Erin Stellato shows us how to use the Track Causality session option for more reliable performance troubleshooting with Extended Events.
Following up on an earlier post about metadata, Aaron Bertrand reveals a few more of his sources for discovering changes in SQL Server.
Aaron Bertrand shows why and how you should upgrade your SSMS 2016 client from 13.0.11000.48 to 13.0.11000.78.
Erin Stellato of SQLskills shows how to use Extended Events to monitor for query plans with certain characteristics, such as joins missing predicates, columns missing statistics, and unmatched filtered indexes.
Aaron Bertrand describes a new way to track backup and restore extended events...
After a presentation at SQLintersection, Aaron Bertrand shows how to monitor when users are turning trace flags on and off.
Jonathan Kehayias of SQLskills discusses predicates in Extended Events.
