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PREEMPTIVE_AUDIT_ACCESS_EVENTLOG

Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2008, 2008 R2, 2012

What is PREEMPTIVE_AUDIT_ACCESS_EVENTLOG?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when the SQL Server Operating System (SQLOS) scheduler switches to preemptive mode to write an audit event to the Windows event log. Information from Microsoft®

Never

This wait has never occurred recently

PREEMPTIVE_AUDIT_ACCESS_EVENTLOG has not occurred recently on 4207 instances checked.

Prevalence of PREEMPTIVE_AUDIT_ACCESS_EVENTLOG across the Spotlight Population