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We have been using SolarWinds DPA for quite a while. One of our monitored database instances had been on SQL 2017. When we Enabled Deadlock Collection, an Extended Events session named dpa_deadlock_capture was created. It had an event_file target for saving event data to *.xel files, which were created in this path:…
The Ops team recently upgraded to SQL Sentry 2023 from a much older version which used SQL Trace by default. 1. It doesn't seem like simply upgrading to SQL Sentry is making use of Extended Events (XE). We don't see any XE sessions (see image) and we still see old SQL Trace running. 2. He updated the database entry per the…
* what are the benefits of enabling extended events? better performance, correct? * any limitations or differences with legacy SQL trace? Any gotchas? * Why isn't it the default? documentation.solarwinds.com/.../enabling-extended-events.htm
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