An XEvent a Day (30 of 31) – Tracking Session and Statement Level Waits
While attending PASS Summit this year, I got the opportunity to hang out with Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) one afternoon while he did some work for
While attending PASS Summit this year, I got the opportunity to hang out with Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) one afternoon while he did some work for
As I have said previously in this series, one of my favorite aspects of Extended Events is that it allows you to look at what
The Database Compression feature in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition can provide some significant reductions in storage requirements for SQL Server databases, and in the
Nearly two years ago Kalen Delaney blogged about Splitting a page into multiple pages, showing how page splits occur inside of SQL Server. Following her
There are 7 Session level options that can be configured in Extended Events that affect the way an Event Session operates. These options can impact
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
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