How Do You Pick Events in Extended Events?
A while back I wrote about using AI to explore why people are not using Extended Events. You can read all about it here, but a short summary of the biggest blockers would be: Familiarity (more comfort in Trace or DMVs) Lack of Knowledge (just don't know how it works) XML (I agree) Event Overload (there are just too many) For this blog post I want to focus on the last one, Event Overload. There really are a lot of events in Extended Events. I don't just think that's a good thing. I think it's a GREAT thing. However, I get it. I hit the same problem, regularly. Which events do I use to do thing that I'm trying to do? Except for blogs like this one, there's not always…