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Monitor for Blocked Process Records and Deadlocking using Extended Events

By Lori Brown | Extended Events , SQL Administration , SQL Server

Here is a way to set up an extended events session that can be used to collect blocked processes and deadlock records.  I use similar code to collect this type of data each day and have a job that pulls the data into tables which can be used to evaluate the resources that are being […]

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Using Extended Events to Find Statement Causing a Job to Run Long or Hang

By Lori Brown | Extended Events , Helpful Scripts , Jobs , Performance Tuning , SQL Administration , SQL Server

On one of the servers that we monitor, it was reported that periodically a specific job would seem to hang and take forever to complete.  I was asked to set up something to help find exactly what statement in the job that was the root cause of the hang.  Since the issue only occurred intermittently, […]

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