Predicate Order is Critical

I want to drive home the importance of the predicate order when dealing with Extended Events. This is an important topic because it can be very helpful in maintaining a reasonably performing event monitoring system.

Comparison Predicates and Event Data

Predicates are a significant component within the Extended Events Engine. This article discusses one of the pieces of the puzzle of predicates – comparison operators – also known as pred_compare.

Predicates and Event Data

A predicate is a filtering mechanism used in SQL Server to target specific data when either querying or updating rows.

Map Data Types in Extended Events

Maps are like a way of overloading the data type to expose more meaningful values that relate to the payload data in question. The standard data types can also be called scalar types with a single value (instead of a table lookup).

Data Types in Extended Events

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.