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• Issues with the system_health session in SQL Server 2012

  The ever alert Jonathan Kehayias ( Blog | Twitter ) sent me a question recently asking about the Extended Event UI used for showing predicates. In particular, he was wondering about the predicate for the wait_info event that is defined in the system_health Read More... Posted Friday, February 17, 2012 4:37 PM by extended_events | 0 Comments Filed under: 301 - Advanced, SQL Server 2012

• Activity Tracking event session template is broken

  With the release of SQL Server 2012 RC0 you will notice that a number of new session templates have shown up in both the New Session Wizard and the New Session dialog. One template in particular, Activity Tracking, is unfortunately broken “out of the Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:20 PM by extended_events | 0 Comments Filed under: 301 - Advanced, SQL Server 2012

• Session memory – who’s this guy named Max and what’s he doing with my memory?

  SQL Server MVP Jonathan Kehayias ( blog ) emailed me a question last week when he noticed that the total memory used by the buffers for an event session was larger than the value he specified for the MAX_MEMORY option in the CREATE EVENT SESSION DDL. Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:12 PM by extended_events | 0 Comments Filed under: "Denali" CTP1, 401 - Internals, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012