Questions tagged [extended-events]
SQL Server Extended Events (Extended Events) is a general event-handling system for server systems.
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Sql_text Data Missing When Querying Extended Event File Target Using TSQL
I set up an Extended Events session to capture SQL Server error events.
Below is the TSQL I used to create the XE session:
CREATE EVENT SESSION [ErrorCapture] ON SERVER
ADD EVENT sqlserver....
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Performance impact of Extended Events sessions looking at the exact same event type
I have created an extended events session that watches the module_start event type and filters down based on the object_name: equal_i_sql_unicode_string]([object_name])
The purpose of this session is ...
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What Name from Event Library?
I'm new in SQL Server's extended events and you can create your own session and select your own name in Event library.
From your experience, what name from event library have you selected in order to ...
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extended events rpc_completed duration does not matching with rpc_starting
Does rpc_completed duration (micro_sec) = rpc_starting.timestamp - rpc_completed.timestamp?
In my case, I saw a big difference between them. Duration is only few millsec, where rpc_starting.timestamp -...
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SQL Server Extended Events to Capture Objects access by a User [duplicate]
I am in for a requirement where I need to use EE to capture the Objects Accessed by a particular SQL User.
I want to avoid the action sqlserver.sql_text, if I use this, I will need to manually scan ...
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How to avoid Table Lock Escalation?
I've got a task to update 5 million rows in a production table, without locking down the whole table for extended time
So, I used approach that helped me before many times - updating top (N) rows at a ...
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Where is the documentation for SQL Server's blocked process report?
I'm trying to work with the blocked process reports captured using Extended Events and, while I can find numerous blog articles and Q&A about specific details (e.g.1 2 3), I can't find any ...
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How to filter MSSQL Xevents by attach_activity_id.guid
I need to create an Extended Events session with the TRACK_CAUSALITY = ON parameter to catch errors in the batch that is executed after RPC, that's why I use this parameter.
I used this script.
When ...
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Automatically reject certain expensive query statements
I have some clients which sometimes run some "not allowed" very expensive queries.
I've tracked them down using Extended Events.
Is it possible to reject these queries automatically? I know ...
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Extended Events XEL file reader; Is there a FileName property avaialble in QueryTableXEventData or SqlBulkCopy
Using the QueryTableXEventData class in Powershell I am able to parse 100's of XEL files very quickly and export their content to a table in SQL Server using SQLBulkCopy
Example:
$events = new-object ...
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How to capture runtime parameters with extended event?
I use rpc_completed event in order to capture executed sprocs. I am also to view the statement and passed parameters by using the following way:
right-click extended event -> Watch Live Data and ...
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How to query an Extended Events target file on a SQL Azure Managed Instance by using T-SQL?
I'm setting up an Extended Events trace in a Managed Instance (NOT Azure SQL DB) for the first time.
These are the steps I've carefully followed:
Created a Master key on my Database.
Created a ...
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Backup Restore, CPU usage and Extended Events
I'm working on measuring the performance impact of Backups on CPU. I would like to capture all the backup operations and CPU usage. I'm running a weekly full backup, daily diff, and 15 min log backup. ...
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SQL Server Extended event filters: can you use an IN predicate with a subquery?
I have an extended event that tracks and filters login events from specific users. The filter is something like this:
WHERE (([sqlserver].[nt_user]=N'fredJohnson') OR ([sqlserver].[nt_user]=N'...
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Problem tracing Error: 8623 with extended events
From time to time we are getting SQL Server error:
Error: 8623, Severity: 16, State: 1
The query processor ran out of
internal resources and could not produce a query plan. This is a rare
event and ...
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SQL extended event captured only the estimated execution plan but no actual execution plan
My SQL instance version is Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (SP3-CU-GDR) (KB4535288)
I am troubleshooting the application time-out and the time-out SELECT query is quite simple. It only takes less than 1 ...
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Improve querying of Extended Events target file
As part of our server estate monitoring, I am adding extended events to pick up warnings, blocking etc and I'd like to periodically (Every couple of minutes) query the event file to collect the data. ...
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Performance of Query where time captured from SP statement completed differs by large from RPC completed
I am unable to understand the performance of below query when collected data from XE events:
Query
DECLARE @Importdate DATETIME = ISNULL ((
SELECT ImportDatetime
FROM
Customertable
where CustomerID ...
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General Question as best practice to collect data from extended events
Hope ya all doing good and safe:-
I am collecting query level metrics from extended events using below events for -
SP statement completed
SQL Statement completed
SQL Batch Completed
RPC Completed
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Specify file target filename dynamically
I need to create an Extended Event session to capture all the executed queries while my server is running and save them in a file under a folder with the database name.
DECLARE @file varchar(50);
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SQL Server 2017, XEvent: sql_text IS NOT NULL
I'm attempting to use XEvents to find out which queries are causing my templog.ldf file to grow in size. I'm getting events, but I see the sizes of the files haven't changed, and that the sql_text ...
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Error while creating Extended Events on 2008 SQL Server
I am trying to create an extended event to capture the login information of my server. While creating an extended event on SQL 2008 using the below query
CREATE EVENT SESSION [SA_Monitor] ON SERVER
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SQL Server 2008: The target name, “package0.event_file”, is invalid, or the object could not be found
What can cause the following error?
Msg 25623, Level 15, State 2, Line 1
The target name, "package0.event_file", is invalid, or the object could not be found
Given the following TSQL:
CREATE EVENT ...
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Troubleshoot MS DTC error
I've been getting these two errors on SQL Server log:
Error 1:
DESCRIPTION: Import of Microsoft Distributed Transaction
Coordinator (MS DTC) transaction failed:
0x8004d00e(...
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Failing MERGE Statement: How to monitor with XEvents and specifically get parameter values for a prepared statement?
My problem
I am running SQL Server 2017 and would like to investigate an error with a MERGE statement like the following
MERGE INTO table
USING
(SELECT ? AS Search_Col) AS SRC
ON table....
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Extended Events Collation resolution error
When trying to expand the sessions under extended events I am getting a Collation Resolution error in SSMS 18.2 (15.0.18142):
Looking at a trace I have found that this query is what is giving me the ...
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create_time in sys.dm_xe_sessions is in the future
I have run the following query which shows the running XE sessions on the server:
SELECT name,
create_time
FROM sys.dm_xe_sessions
and I get the results
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What is the impact of MAX_DISPATCH_LATENCY while configuring EXTENDED EVENT?
By default, MAX_DISPATCH_LATENCY is set to 30 seconds. I chose FILE as a target and write all captures there. I thought that if I write all captures into file, why would then I lower down ...
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MSSQL Server XE column client_connection_id accessible through system view/table for auditing?
In our .NET application we create a SqlConnection to talk to the database.
After the connection is opened, we get the ClientConnectionId, a GUID.
Within the extended events I can manage to trace the ...
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SQL Server Extended Events purging
How do we purge events older than a day in Extended Events in SQL Server 2012. Stopping and Starting the session is not helping.
Target : asynchronous_file_target
Trying to create a job which will ...
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Querying system health data becomes slow as event volume increases
We get the data from system health XE from SQL server and load into table for later querying.
Part of that statements which gets pretty slow is
INSERT INTO TABLE1
(
[object_name]
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Trying to trace error in Stored Procedure using XEvents
Here is the situation:
I have a SQL server ETL application with a stored procedure that is inserting/updating some data into a table. The table has 1 INT column (it is an identity column and there ...
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Read all Captured Extended Events for a Given Extended Event Session Name
I want to be able to read all XE files for a dynamic XE session name. My XE session stores files to disk.
I have the query below
DECLARE @XeName SYSNAME = 'MyXE'
DECLARE @Path NVARCHAR(255)
SELECT @...
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Trying to identify what process is making a connection to a specific DB in SQL Server
I am attempting to track down... something... that is making a connection to a specific database without (apparently) doing anything with the connection. However, so far I have had no luck.
The data ...
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Can Extended Events be used instead of Auditing?
In BOL it is mentioned:
Does this mean Extended Events can capture all the events that are traced by auditing? Can we get all the functionalities of auditing just by using XEvents?
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How to convert Extended Event action mdmget_TimeStampUTC to datetime?
SQL Server Extended Events can include an action of mdmtargetpkg.mdmget_TimeStampUTC. It returns a value such as 132085458320550473. How can that be converted to an actual date?
It doesn't appear to ...
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Way to find when system health file is rolling over
Is there a way to find the events when system health extended event files are rolling over rather than manually monitoring for the events?
For my medium load server they stay upto 2-3 days. But for ...
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What is the proper event in Extended Events to track stored procedure executions?
My goal is to track executions of a single stored procedure using Extended Events
In the event selection list, I can find following:
sql_statement_completed
sql_batch_completed
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SQL Extended Events Session for deadlock detection
Is there a way to increase the size of the <inputbuf> element in the deadlock XML captured by the deadlock extended events session?
We want to see the complete query to help pinpoint the issue ...
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Why execution plan could be skipped from XE session?
Got an issue, similar to this one: Why does SQL Server Profiler trace not capture SELECT operator in execution plans?. There was an advice to use XE instead of Trace, but it does not help.
Thing is, ...
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Resources used by ExtendedEvents
Does anyone know how to tell how many resources (CPU/MEM/Reads etc) have been used by SQL Server Extended Events?
I've went through the available DMVs here
But I dont see where this is tracked ...
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Need Help in extended events SQL Server [duplicate]
I have created an extended event as below. I want to know how to query the historical data using T-SQL to see the issues at particular timestamps. The trace is running as of now
CREATE EVENT SESSION [...
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Incorrect process utilization from System health extended events?
I have been recently working on understanding the data or metrics being stored in system health extended events event file.
We are trying to implement the data collection of performance metrics using ...
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File growth and location change for system health extended events
I am continuing the questions over system health extended event from my previous question How are the system health extended events files rolling over?
I see system health file location by default ...
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How are the system health extended events files rolling over?
I see the default system health session events within SQL Server are 5 MB each with 4 files in total.
We are trying to fetch data from the system health in historical events but for some critical ...
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SQL Server 2016 still uses mixed_extent_allocation in TempDB
Today I was troubleshooting a problem on TempDB on SQL Server 2016 SP2 using extended events and added the mixed_extent_allocation and transaction_log event to my trace.
I expected ...
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Centralized Logs (error, deadlocks, slow queries) For SQL Servers
I want to establish a centralized log for many SQL Servers, similar to the products Graylog or elk stack.
What is the best and performant way to send these kind of logs to a log collector?
I ...
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Capture Extended Events Histogram only during time window
We have a problematic time window during night on the weekends. I want to set up multiple Extended Events sessions to capture some data and get insight.
Most of them will target a file, which I can ...
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How to view xEvent event_file data
I have a small xEvent that is sending the results as .xel to an event_file in G:\XEvents and I want to explore the data with SSMS. I have been looking for a solution and found several posts about ...
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Authoritative Extend Event object list?
I am looking for an authoritative list of objects for extended events, I want to know what version an object becomes available and some clues about what the value really represents. I have googled ...
