Symptoms
Consider the following scenario:
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You create an extended event session to capture the module_end extended event.
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You set the collect_statement attribute to 1.
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You configure the event to send the output to a file target.
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You review the output from the file target by using the sys.fn_xe_file_target_read_file function, and you cast the event data as XML, for example, by using the following syntax:SELECT *, CAST(event_data AS XML) AS 'event_data_XML'
FROM sys.fn_xe_file_target_read_file('file_name*.xel', NULL, NULL, NULL)
In this scenario, you receive an error message that resembles the following:
Msg 9421, Level 16, State 1, Line 50
XML parsing: line 1, character 592, illegal name character
Resolution
Service pack information
The issue was first fixed in the following Service Pack for SQL Server.
Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2014
About Service packs for SQL Server
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.