SQL SERVER – Idera SQL XEvent Profiler – a Free Tool for XEvent Monitoring

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We often resist the change, we do not like change and we keep on using the same old technology which we have been using it to resolve the new challenges which we face in our daily life. The Extended Event is such a technology as well. It was added to SQL Server in SQL 2008 and expanded upon greatly in SQL 2012 is a powerful mechanism for monitoring activity in SQL Server. It has huge implications for tools like SQL Diagnostic Manager, which switched over to XEvent technology for wait monitoring, and for users of all stripes who need to see what is happening on their servers.

Though the product was well thought of it was yet not quite ready for average users due to many reasons. It offered a reduced set of events and could only be manipulated through TSQL. In SQL 2012 the number of events went up dramatically and Microsoft released an XEvent GUI as part of Management Studio. However, lots of users think that the XEvent tool is a bit overkill for a lot of purposes. Therefore, a lot of users continue to use SQL Server Profiler, which uses trace technology. It’s easy to see why – it’s familiar, it’s easy to use, and it takes only a few clicks to get a diagnostic session started.

Team Idera has put together a new free tool called SQL XE Event Profiler, which offers the simplicity of Profiler but uses the powerful and lightweight XEvent technology on the back end. The idea was to provide the simple 2 click behavior that users were looking for, along with the familiar SQL Profiler templates that users are already accustomed to using. The application has the familiar start, stop, and pause buttons, the ability to turn auto-scroll on and off, and the ability to clear the grid. While we were at it, we added some nice grouping functionality to the event grid, along with text searching and export.

I am downloading this tool this weekend and going to play with this tool and see how I can use it on my various servers. I encourage all of you to do the same. Here is the link to the original blog.

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Reference<: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)