August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1416 pages
33h 39m
English
Chapter 40
Extended Events
In This Chapter
Understanding the Extended Event Object Model
Using the system_health Session
Discovering Extended Events Enhancements
Using the Extended Events Profiler
Extended Events, which debuted in SQL Server 2008, is a general event-handling system that you can use to diagnose and troubleshoot issues inside the SQL Server database engine. The main design goals of the Extended Events engine are to ensure that the overhead it produces on the system is at a minimum and that it is as scalable and extensible as possible.
This chapter is an overview of the Extended Events object model as well as the many new features added to Extended Events in SQL Server 2012.
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