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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.

CHECK_TABLES_THREAD_BARRIER

Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2016, 2017

What is CHECK_TABLES_THREAD_BARRIER?

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of CHECK_TABLES_THREAD_BARRIER across the Spotlight Population

For 33 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 1 ms

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

131 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of CHECK_TABLES_THREAD_BARRIER across the Spotlight Population