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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.

DBMIRRORING_CMD

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 DBMIRRORING_CMD?

2 Answers

 

Occurs when a task is waiting for log records to be flushed to disk. This wait state is expected to be held for long periods of time. Information from Microsoft®
 

See https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/caa7de40-820c-4250-afa0-4d77a09a2d51/dbmirroringcmd-waits?forum=sqldatabaseengine
Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of DBMIRRORING_CMD across the Spotlight Population

For 80 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 23 seconds

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

19 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of DBMIRRORING_CMD across the Spotlight Population