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The charts are based on 2.1 TB of data collected from 4207 instances uploaded by 323 Spotlight users over an 8 week period.

SQLTRACE_PENDING_BUFFER_WRITERS

Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

What is SQLTRACE_PENDING_BUFFER_WRITERS?

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

For each of 4207 instances, we ranked SQLTRACE_PENDING_BUFFER_WRITERS on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.

Prevalence of SQLTRACE_PENDING_BUFFER_WRITERS across the Spotlight Population

For 98 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.053 ms

For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a SQLTRACE_PENDING_BUFFER_WRITERS wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.

10 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of SQLTRACE_PENDING_BUFFER_WRITERS across the Spotlight Population