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Practical Database Auditing for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL: Troubleshooting, Regulatory Compliance, and Governance
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Practical Database Auditing for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL: Troubleshooting, Regulatory Compliance, and Governance

by Josephine Bush
September 2022
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
5h 55m
English
Apress
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J. BushPractical Database Auditing for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8634-0_6

6. What Is Extended Events?

Josephine Bush1  
(1)
Boulder, CO, USA
 

Extended events, abbreviated as XEvents, is a built-in auditing and monitoring functionality available via SQL Server Management Studio GUI or SQL scripts. You can set up and configure it to capture pretty much anything that happens on SQL Server. It’s quite flexible and fairly easy to set up.

Extended events was intended as a replacement for Profiler , which was supposed to be deprecated in some future SQL Server version. Profiler is a way to create a trace that can capture everything ...

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