I have outlined a number of blogs here that point to the basics of working with Extended Events. Some of them also detail you some specific scenarios that you can use inside your environments.
I travel quite a bit and the month of October and November seem to be filled with half my life is going to be spent hopping from one airport to another. Not to mention the amount of screening that go through every single time in every flight. However strange as it might sound, in one of such airport transits I was waiting for my bag to be screened through the machine and I was watching the screen on the other side where the security officer sits. It was interesting because it was a very skillful task as he was finding a needle in a haystack (in the literal sense). He was able to figure out what items, sharp items and toys which are restricted were getting passed through. I was amused and was transported into a world of wonderland because it was quite a challenging task. With these memories not subsiding, I landed to my desired destination and started checking my mails. There was one mail that caught my attention because suddenly it was a junior DBA who was trying to give some permissions and was getting an error. I was quick to get interested because it was a topic around security and I wanted to crack it. The message stated like: Error Fix: Msg 300, VIEW SERVER STATE
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