November 2009
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
30h 4m
English
Cristian Lefter
SQL Server gives many options for monitoring and troubleshooting, such as SQL Server Profiler and SQL Trace, Dynamic Management Views and Functions, the default trace, trace flags, performance counters, deadlock graphs, ring buffers, blocked process reports, DBCC commands, various logs, and others. So you may wonder why anyone would need a new event infrastructure such as Extended Events. It may sound shocking, but the diversity of the tools is the main reason. Having so many techniques available makes it difficult to maintain the code for each new release of SQL Server. That’s from a developer’s point of view. For the rest of us—customers, consultants, users, and even for Microsoft ...
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