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Is your system_health session missing data?

November 20, 2017June 3, 2018 ~ franklinyamamoto

It is fairly common knowledge that the system_health session is a useful tool for resolving issues such as deadlocks.  I see a lot of posts on other websites where people report a discrepancy in the number of deadlocks monitored by perfmon or tracing vs what shows up in the system health session. This is the result […]

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