Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire a Schema Share lock. 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_S
Category: Lock
SQL Server versions: 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is LCK_M_SCH_S?
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answered 3105 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked LCK_M_SCH_S on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of LCK_M_SCH_S across the Spotlight Population
For 85 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 130 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a LCK_M_SCH_S wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
1580 instances contributed data to this chart