MSDN Blogs: New DMF for retrieving input buffer in SQL Server

A new DMF for retrieving the input buffer for a session/request (sys.dm_exec_input_buffer) is now available in SQL Server 2016 RC0. This is functionally equivalent to DBCC INPUTBUFFER.

However, this has a few advantages over DBCC INPUTBUFFER.

• Directly returns a rowset.
• Can be conveniently used with sys.dm_exec_sessions or sys.dm_exec_requests by doing a CROSS APPLY.
• Can use a simple query to retrieve input buffer of multiple sessions without the need for a script and temp table.

For example:

   1:SELECT es.session_id, ib.event_info 

   2:FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions AS es 

   3:CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_input_buffer(es.session_id, NULL) AS ib 

   4:WHERE es.session_id > 50;

 

Results:

 

session_id event_info
---------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
51         select value_in_use from sys.configurations where configuration_id = 16384
52         SELECT es.session_id, ib.event_info FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions AS es CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_input_buffer(es.session_id, NULL) AS ib WHERE es.session_id > 50;
53         (@source nvarchar(256),@sourceopt int)SELECT type, data FROM sys.fn_MSxe_read_event_stream (@source, @sourceopt)

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