Recently in one of my SQL Server seminars, I was asked to give a short introduction and a demo on SQL Server Extented events. In this post I will explain what Extended Events are and provide a hands on demo. SQL Server Profiler is (was) the main tool for DBA admins and developers to find out why there were performance issues with SQL Server queries and troubleshoot them. DBAs also use sql traces, DBCC commands and trace flags for performance related issues. Now we have an additional tool in our disposal. We have SQL Server Extended events which were firstly introduced in SQL Server 2008. SQL Server 2008 introduced Extended Events which is a system for collecting event-driven data about a SQL Server instance and its databases. In SQL Server 2008 we had no GUI (wizards) for the extended events, In that version of SQL Server 2008 we had to write complex T-SQL statements to gather the information we needed to analyse. The results from those SQL queries was returned in an XML format and sometimes it was difficult to analyse them.


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