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The description shown below is the top answer as voted by the Spotlight community.
The charts are based on 2.1 TB of data collected from 4207 instances uploaded by 323 Spotlight users over an 8 week period.
MISCELLANEOUS
Category: Idle
SQL Server versions: 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.
What is MISCELLANEOUS?
2 Answers
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answered 3318 days ago
Spotlight Essentials
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This really should be called "Not Waiting"
answered 3311 days ago
Iain Shepherd
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked MISCELLANEOUS on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of MISCELLANEOUS across the Spotlight Population
For 52 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is above 5 seconds
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a MISCELLANEOUS wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
14 instances contributed data to this chart