Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire a Schema Modify lock with Low Priority. (Related to the low priority wait option of ALTER TABLE and ALTER INDEX.) Information from Microsoft®
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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.
LCK_M_SCH_M_LOW_PRIORITY
Category: Lock
SQL Server versions: 2014, 2016, 2017
What is LCK_M_SCH_M_LOW_PRIORITY?
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answered 3318 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked LCK_M_SCH_M_LOW_PRIORITY on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of LCK_M_SCH_M_LOW_PRIORITY across the Spotlight Population
For 79 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 3.2 seconds
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a LCK_M_SCH_M_LOW_PRIORITY wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
8 instances contributed data to this chart