Today I get to talk about data types within Extended Events. This also means, I hope to be able to bring a little more clarity to the topic.
Month: September 2015
Storing Event Data
Among the several core concepts of Extended Events is the concept of storing event payloads / data.
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Actions In Extended Events
an action invokes memories of verbs and “to do” something. If you recall from the quick definition in the article on Extended Events Objects, an action is “a means to attach additional data to the payload of an event.”
Extended Events and Fixed Schemas
Working with databases, XML, and many software applications, it is not uncommon to deal with fixed schemas. In the database world, it is fairly fundamental to have some sort of schema. The schema represents the typing of the bit-strings that are being stored or presented. One might even call it the template.
Extended Events – Event Anatomy
As a follow-up to the introduction to what an Event is, it makes sense to discuss the components of an event. What makes up an event? What is the payload of the event? What is a payload?
Extended Events – Events
If you recall, an event is some point of interest that may or may not occur within an application. Obviously, if the event is triggered, then that point of interest has occurred.
Extended Events Categories
Packages have a couple of descriptors (or classifiers) that can be useful to help figure out what events contained within that package might be related to other events.
One Easy Strategy for the Database Enterprise
Working with the default XEvent session and trying to make it more suitable to Enterprise worthy.
Learning Extended Events in 60 Days
Want to Learn Extended Events over the course of your lunch break for a couple of months? This is the Table of Contents for learning Extended Events over the course of 60 days.