The tag has no wiki summary.

learn more… | top users | synonyms

5
votes
1answer
49 views

Troubleshooting SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD wait

Running our corporate ERP (Dynamics AX 2012), I noticed our production environment seemed much slower than our development systems. After performing the same activities in both the development and ...
6
votes
1answer
105 views

LATCH_EX Waits on Resource METADATA_SEQUENCE_GENERATOR

We have a process that generates an inventory report. On the client side, the process splits of a configurable number of worker threads to build a chunk of data for the report that corresponds to one ...
3
votes
3answers
186 views

Investigating high SQL waits, especically LCK_M_U

Recently I have been struggling with SQL server performance and although we have fixed a huge multitude of basic errors in the config it is still performing badly. To clarify it is not overall ...
1
vote
4answers
1k views

Select from linked server to local server causing waits on both sides

The queries in question are here: http://pastie.org/4833351 Run individually, each of these queries runs through (albeit slow). Run as a group, it just sits there, showing either OLEDB waits on the ...
2
votes
1answer
342 views

Is the SQLTRACE_FILE_BUFFER wait type documented? What does it indicate?

We run a background task on one of our servers which polls sys.dm_exec_requests for long-running queries, gathering diagnostic information when it finds them, including wait type. I'm seeing a number ...
6
votes
1answer
273 views

Attempting to tune a Sharepoint site using SQL Server Waits and Queues

I'm pretty new to this performance tuning with Waits and Queues thing - fascinating, but also not always all that intuitive... Right now, a customer of mine has a SQL Server 2008 64-bit Enterprise ...
5
votes
2answers
8k views

How to troubleshoot enq: TX - row lock contention?

I have the following situation. I have RAC. On both nodes there are the locks. On the First Node SID EVENT USERNAME BLOCKING_SESSION ROW_WAIT_OBJ# OBJECT_NAME ...
3
votes
3answers
914 views

PageIOLatch_Sh waits noticed after tuning an index

Lately, a lot of queries to the database are timing out. While investigating I found that queries are in the suspended state with wait_type as PageIOLatch_Sh. I have not noticed so many queries being ...
2
votes
1answer
453 views

async_network_io issues with BIDS

This is related to my previous question drastically different runtimes in BIDS and the SSRS Web Portal. I am struggling with refreshing some reports in BIDS because they run forever. I have now ...
14
votes
1answer
3k views

SLEEP_TASK Wait Type in SQL Server - What does it indicate?

I haven't seen the SLEEP_TASK wait type before, and today I seem to be getting a ton of them. I'm not the official DBA, just a SQL Server developer who knows some DBA stuff. We upgraded our servers ...