In the last days I  had to work quite a lot with extended events in order to deeply monitor SQL Server performance. One interesting request that came out while implementing the monitoring infrastructure, was the possibility to monitor the performance of a set of stored procedures, vital for the correct handling of an online booking ...

One very useful usage of Extended Events is the ability to trap SQL Server error without the need to have a server trace running (which, btw, is deprecated), with the additional feature of being able to query the data as soon as it comes in. This means that we a solution to monitor and trap errors as soon as they happen can be easily created, in ...