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BROKER_RECEIVE_WAITFOR

Category: Idle
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.

What is BROKER_RECEIVE_WAITFOR?

2 Answers

 

Occurs when the RECEIVE WAITFOR is waiting. This is typical if no messages are ready to be received. Information from Microsoft®
 

This wait type is charged once per WAITFOR RECEIVE SQL statement, where the statement execution waits for messages to arrive in the user queue.

Waiting_tasks_count must be same as the number of times such statements have been executed and wait_time_ms should be the total time their execution had to wait before messages arrived or WAITFOR timeout for each.

If avg_wait_time_ms is much higher than expected, errorlog and profiler events should be checked on both initiator and target server instances for potential problems. Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql_service_broker/archive/2008/12/01/service-broker-wait-types.aspx
Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of BROKER_RECEIVE_WAITFOR across the Spotlight Population

For 40 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 16 seconds

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

345 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of BROKER_RECEIVE_WAITFOR across the Spotlight Population