SQL Server 2016 is on the horizon. We have a few CTP versions already released for download, allowing people to become more and more familiar with the product.
Recently, I wrote about how SQL Server 2016 has many more Extended Events that have been added for our use. You can read about the new events added – here.
One thing I did not discuss in that previous article was the apparent deprecation of a few events. Yes, events do get removed from time to time. Every now and again, old events are not removed (e.g. databases_data_file_size_changed and databases_log_file_size_changed which you can read more about here). It would be nice to remove those old events but that is for another article!
As of this writing, the following image shows what has been removed and no longer available.
Looking closely at this list of three events, I don’t know that it is terribly concerning. Two of the events are for the query store that did not work in 2014. So there is nothing really lost there. The other event appears to be more of an event used for debugging column store code (the event was in the debug channel).
So overall, the impact of the loss of these events should be very limited. And on the positive side, it is still evidence that Microsoft continues to push forward to make XEvents even bigger and badder. Extended Events are a wonderful tool-set for use by DBAs to be better informed about their environment.
