An XEvent a Day (24 of 31) – What is the callstack?
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
In yesterday’s blog post A Look at Backup Internals and How to Track Backup and Restore Throughput (Part 1), we looked at what happens when
Today’s post is a continuation of yesterday’s post How Many Checkpoints are Issued During a Full Backup? and the investigation of Database Engine Internals with
This wasn’t my intended blog post for today, but last night a question came across #SQLHelp on Twitter from Varun (Twitter). #sqlhelp how many checkpoints
If you don’t know anything about Ghost Cleanup, I recommend highly that you go read Paul Randal’s blog posts Inside the Storage Engine: Ghost cleanup
When working with SQL Trace, one of my biggest frustrations has been the limitations that exist in filtering. Using sp_trace_setfilter to establish the filter criteria
Today’s post was originally planned for this coming weekend, but seems I’ve caught whatever bug my kids had over the weekend so I am changing
The lack of SSMS support for Extended Events, coupled with the fact that a number of the existing Events in SQL Trace were not implemented
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