December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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What’s New in Monitoring SQL Server Performance
Performance tuning and troubleshooting are time-consuming tasks for the administrator. To help provide insights quickly into performance issues, SQL Server 2012 provides some new and enhanced features for monitoring SQL Server performance.
Extended Events were introduced in SQL Server 2008 as a lightweight mechanism that supports capturing, filtering, and acting on events generated by the server process. Extended Events provide a flexible and powerful way to provide a low granular level of information about the server system. Unfortunately, as powerful as they were, there was no interface for creating, managing, and viewing Extended Events; it was all done using T-SQL commands, making them somewhat ...