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Using an extended event to track a single stored procedure
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Problem
I'm attempting to track all executions of a stored procedure (Including from inside other stored procedures) and the statements of that procedure - is this possible with extended events? My current extended event is:
But this doesn't seem to work unless I execute the procedure manually. Any best practice method to do this?
CREATE EVENT SESSION [EVENT_NAME] ON SERVER
ADD EVENT sqlserver.rpc_completed(SET collect_data_stream=(1)
ACTION(sqlserver.database_id,sqlserver.database_name,sqlserver.server_principal_name,sqlserver.session_id)
WHERE ([package0].greater_than_uint64) AND [package0].equal_boolean) AND [sqlserver].like_i_sql_unicode_string)),
ADD EVENT sqlserver.sp_statement_completed(
ACTION(sqlserver.database_id,sqlserver.database_name,sqlserver.server_principal_name,sqlserver.session_id)
WHERE ([package0].greater_than_uint64) AND [package0].equal_boolean) AND [sqlserver].like_i_sql_unicode_string)),
ADD EVENT sqlserver.sql_batch_completed(
ACTION(sqlserver.database_id,sqlserver.database_name,sqlserver.server_principal_name,sqlserver.session_id)
WHERE ([package0].greater_than_uint64) AND [package0].equal_boolean) AND [sqlserver].like_i_sql_unicode_string))
ADD TARGET package0.event_file(SET filename=N'TraceData')
WITH (MAX_MEMORY=4096 KB,EVENT_RETENTION_MODE=ALLOW_SINGLE_EVENT_LOSS,MAX_DISPATCH_LATENCY=30 SECONDS,MAX_EVENT_SIZE=0 KB,MEMORY_PARTITION_MODE=NONE,TRACK_CAUSALITY=ON,STARTUP_STATE=OFF)
GO
But this doesn't seem to work unless I execute the procedure manually. Any best practice method to do this?
Solution
Your way is very expensive.
You can use
Prepare a demo
And a draft of the XE session - you should add some data persisting options.
Then I execute code like this:
You can see that the
I blog more about parsing the
Investigating Errors With Extended Events
You can use
module_start event to track this efficiently.Prepare a demo
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.TrackedProcedure
@param int
AS
BEGIN
SELECT @param
END
GO
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.WrapperProcedure
@passParam int
AS
BEGIN
/* do something */
SELECT 'WrapperProcedure' AS context
EXEC dbo.TrackedProcedure
@param = @passParam
END
GOAnd a draft of the XE session - you should add some data persisting options.
CREATE EVENT SESSION [TrackProcedure] ON SERVER
ADD EVENT sqlserver.module_start
(
SET collect_statement=1
ACTION
(
sqlserver.client_app_name, /* Additional audit info */
sqlserver.database_name, /* Additional audit info */
sqlserver.session_server_principal_name, /* Additional audit info */
sqlserver.username, /* Additional audit info */
sqlserver.sql_text,
sqlserver.tsql_stack
)
WHERE
(
[object_type]='P ' /* The space behind P is necesssary */
AND [object_name]=N'TrackedProcedure'
)
)Then I execute code like this:
/* Batch 1 */
EXEC dbo.TrackedProcedure
@param = 10
GO
/* Batch 2 */
EXEC dbo.WrapperProcedure
@passParam = 5 -- int
GOYou can see that the
sql_text column is the input buffer - capturing the outer scope.statement column has the exact line.I blog more about parsing the
tsql_stack here.Investigating Errors With Extended Events
Code Snippets
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.TrackedProcedure
@param int
AS
BEGIN
SELECT @param
END
GO
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.WrapperProcedure
@passParam int
AS
BEGIN
/* do something */
SELECT 'WrapperProcedure' AS context
EXEC dbo.TrackedProcedure
@param = @passParam
END
GOCREATE EVENT SESSION [TrackProcedure] ON SERVER
ADD EVENT sqlserver.module_start
(
SET collect_statement=1
ACTION
(
sqlserver.client_app_name, /* Additional audit info */
sqlserver.database_name, /* Additional audit info */
sqlserver.session_server_principal_name, /* Additional audit info */
sqlserver.username, /* Additional audit info */
sqlserver.sql_text,
sqlserver.tsql_stack
)
WHERE
(
[object_type]='P ' /* The space behind P is necesssary */
AND [object_name]=N'TrackedProcedure'
)
)/* Batch 1 */
EXEC dbo.TrackedProcedure
@param = 10
GO
/* Batch 2 */
EXEC dbo.WrapperProcedure
@passParam = 5 -- int
GOContext
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