Used by background worker that waits on events on queue to process checkpoint requests.
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CHECKPOINT_QUEUE
Category: Idle
SQL Server versions: 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.
What is CHECKPOINT_QUEUE?
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answered 3305 days ago
Iain Shepherd
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Occurs while the checkpoint task is waiting for the next checkpoint request. Information from Microsoft®
answered 3318 days ago
Spotlight Essentials
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked CHECKPOINT_QUEUE on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of CHECKPOINT_QUEUE across the Spotlight Population
For 68 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 2.7 minutes
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a CHECKPOINT_QUEUE wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
1132 instances contributed data to this chart