Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals
by Paul Randal Kalen Delaney Kimberly Tripp, and Conor Cunningham
Summary
SQL Server has many eventing systems that range from the simple—like triggers and event notifications—to the intricate—like XE. Each of these systems is designed to help both users and SQL Server itself work better by enabling arbitrary code execution or data collection when specific actions occur in the database engine. In this chapter, we explored the various hidden and internal objects used by Change Tracking to help support synchronization applications, the inner workings of the ubiquitous SQL Trace infrastructure, and the complex architecture of XE, the future of eventing within SQL Server. Events within SQL Server are extremely powerful, and we hope that this chapter has provided you with enough internal knowledge of these systems ...
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