{"id":769,"date":"2016-06-03T14:41:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T21:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/erin\/?p=769"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:19:32","slug":"sql-trace-versus-extended-events-how-long-does-it-take-to-startup-a-trace-vs-an-event-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/erin\/sql-trace-versus-extended-events-how-long-does-it-take-to-startup-a-trace-vs-an-event-session\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Trace versus Extended Events: How long does it take to startup a trace vs. an event session?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/erin\/tell-me-how-you-use-profiler-and-trace\/\">how everyone uses Trace and Profiler<\/a>&#8230;\u00a0 Jonathan and I have talked about creating a library of Extended Events script to help people migrate off of Profiler and Trace and that post was designed to generate some ideas about what people might find useful.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t gotten a ton of comments, but I did get a few (thank you to those have responded!), and I decided to take one of them and create a Trace and create an Extended Events session and see how long it took for each.\u00a0 Jonathan has mentioned before that he can create an XE session as fast as a Trace, and I&#8217;ve been thinking that I can as well so I thought I&#8217;d test it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a straight-forward Trace versus Extended Events test.\u00a0 Want to see what&#8217;s faster?\u00a0 Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/resources\/erintracechallenge.wmv\">video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I asked how everyone uses Trace and Profiler&#8230;\u00a0 Jonathan and I have talked about creating a library of Extended Events script to help people migrate off of Profiler and Trace and that post was designed to generate some ideas about what people might find useful. 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