Occurs when a task is waiting on a latch for a buffer that is in an I/O request. The latch request is in Exclusive mode. Long waits may indicate problems with the disk subsystem. Information from Microsoft®
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PAGEIOLATCH_EX
Category: IO
SQL Server versions: 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is PAGEIOLATCH_EX?
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answered 3348 days ago
Spotlight Essentials
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PAGEIOLATCH_EX is an exclusive buffer page latch. SQL Server requires a page not stored in the buffer cache, so allocates a buffer page and places the latch on the buffer page whilst the data is transferred from the disk.
answered 3341 days ago
Iain Shepherd
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This wait is very common for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked PAGEIOLATCH_EX on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of PAGEIOLATCH_EX across the Spotlight Population
For 38 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 1.2 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a PAGEIOLATCH_EX wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
3792 instances contributed data to this chart