Finding the right event or combination of events to monitor may seem like quite a daunting task with so many events to explore and (frequently) too little familiarity with Extended Events. In this follow-up article to Extended Events Help Queries, I will share another means to quickly explore the Extended Events metadata for Azure SQL in the effort to find the precise event to fit your needs.
In this article, I will be sharing a new query or two that I have used on more than one occasion to help track down the event(s) that I wanted to, at least, try while troubleshooting specific problems within the SQL Server Instance. I found these queries useful once again in a recent opportunity to help out some friends from the SQL Community. (Maybe, just maybe, these are really just a spin of other previously shared queries.) I will share the most recent experience in another follow-up post.
For the sake of posterity, I am also adding this to the MASSIVE collection of Extended Events articles.
Is There an Event that Contains pertinent Data?
In my previous article, I demonstrated how to find an event based solely on the name or description of the event. This is fantastic if the event name (or description) contains one of the magical words you have used. What if the event name or description has nothing to do with the terms you selected? Or, what if the data you seek may be attached to the event but wouldn’t necessarily stand out as a description for that event (by name or description details for that event)?
Now comes the more difficult task right? If the name or description of the event doesn’t relate to the search terms then you just might overlook a few events and be stuck…
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