This past week at the SQL Server Connections Conference in Las Vegas, I was asked about the permissions required for managing Extended Event Sessions in SQL Server.  In SQL Server 2008 and 2008R2, using Extended Events required the CONTROL SERVER permission for the instance of SQL Server (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677289(v=sql.105).aspx).  In SQL Server 2012, a much more [...]