August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1416 pages
33h 39m
English
The system_health session is a predefined Extended Events session that collects system data to help troubleshoot issues in the Database Engine. The session collections information associated with high-severity errors, deadlocks, nonyielding scheduler problems, and sessions that have had to wait a long time for locks or preemptive (OS) waits. This session starts when SQL Server starts and outputs data to a ring buffer as well as a file on the file system. You can disable or modify this session, but it is recommended that you do not because it can trap a lot of useful information that can be used to troubleshoot and fix SQL Server problems.
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