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I have been so busy this week that I didn’t get a chance to blog about this yesterday when it happened, but I had a new article published on SQLPerformance.com that compares the performance impact or "observer overhead" of using SQL Trace and Extended Events.  I had a lot of fun running different benchmarks for this article and the results are very revealing about the overhead associated with diagnostic data collection against SQL Server under load.  <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.sqlperformance.com\/2012\/10\/sql-trace\/observer-overhead-trace-extended-events<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ll be writing additional performance related articles on SQLPerformance.com in the next few months along with other members of SQLskills so make sure you add the RSS Feed<\/a> to your favorite feed reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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