Monitoring Wait Events of a single Session or Query in SQL Server

Using sys.dm_os_wait_stat is not useful for deep troubleshooting because this view contains wait events for ALL processes/queries running on your instance since last restart. Using command “DBCC SQLPERF (‘sys.dm_os_wait_stats’, CLEAR)” we can reset this view with no restart but on big and stressed instances with many processes and applications running this isn’t a real good solution.

SQL 2008 introduce a new powerful and flexible way to collect performance data: Extended Events.
With EE we can collect performance data for a wide range of counters with almost any filter we want.

The following procedure collect and manage asyncronously data of a SINGLE session.
Using this solution you can collect wait events infos of your session while testing or wait events infos about a single user or application.

NOTE: Stats are collected in a fs folder, so watch carefully space used growing while collecting.

--- 1) Drop the monitor session if it exists.
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.server_event_sessions WHERE name = 'WaitMon')
    DROP EVENT SESSION WaitMon ON SERVER
GO

--- 2) Create the new monitor session.
CREATE EVENT SESSION WaitMon ON SERVER
ADD EVENT sqlos.wait_info
    (WHERE sqlserver.session_id = 79 )              ---INSERT HERE the session id to monitor
ADD TARGET package0.asynchronous_file_target       
    (SET FILENAME = N'S:tempEE_WaitMonStats.xel', ---INSERT HERE the correct path for collected data stats
     METADATAFILE = N'S:tempEE_WaitMonStats.xem')
WITH (max_dispatch_latency = 1 seconds);
GO

--- 3) Start the Monitor session
ALTER EVENT SESSION WaitMon ON SERVER STATE = START;
GO

--- 4) >>>>>>...run your query or wait for data collection from spid session....<<<<<<

--- 5) Stop the Monitor session
ALTER EVENT SESSION WaitMon ON SERVER STATE = STOP;
GO

--- 6) Load collected data in a temp table
CREATE TABLE #RawEventData (
    Rowid  INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
    event_data XML);
GO

INSERT INTO #RawEventData(event_data)
SELECT
    CAST (event_data AS XML) AS event_data
FROM sys.fn_xe_file_target_read_file
        ('S:tempEE_WaitMonStats*.xel',          ---INSERT HERE the correct path for collected data stats 
         'S:tempEE_WaitMonStats*.xem', null, null);
GO

--- 7) Query data to analize wait events
SELECT
    waits.[Wait Type],
    COUNT (*) AS [Wait Count],
    SUM (waits.[Duration]) AS [Total Wait Time (ms)],
    SUM (waits.[Duration]) - SUM (waits.[Signal Duration]) AS [Total Resource Wait Time (ms)],
    SUM (waits.[Signal Duration]) AS [Total Signal Wait Time (ms)]
FROM
    (SELECT
        event_data.value ('(/event/@timestamp)[1]', 'DATETIME') AS [Time],
        event_data.value ('(/event/data[@name=''wait_type'']/text)[1]', 'VARCHAR(100)') AS [Wait Type],
        event_data.value ('(/event/data[@name=''opcode'']/text)[1]', 'VARCHAR(100)') AS [Op],
        event_data.value ('(/event/data[@name=''duration'']/value)[1]', 'BIGINT') AS [Duration],
        event_data.value ('(/event/data[@name=''signal_duration'']/value)[1]', 'BIGINT') AS [Signal Duration]
     FROM #RawEventData
    ) AS waits
WHERE waits.[op] = 'End'
GROUP BY waits.[Wait Type]
ORDER BY [Total Wait Time (ms)] DESC;
GO 

--- 8) Cleanup
DROP TABLE #RawEventData;
GO