This wait is for the Query Store in 2016 - even though it occurs in 2014 too. It can be ignored. Source: Paul Randal's comment on his page Wait statistics, or please tell me where it hurts
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QDS_SHUTDOWN_QUEUE
Category: Idle
SQL Server versions: 2014, 2016, 2017
This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.
What is QDS_SHUTDOWN_QUEUE?
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answered 3016 days ago
Iain Shepherd
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked QDS_SHUTDOWN_QUEUE on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of QDS_SHUTDOWN_QUEUE across the Spotlight Population
For 93 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 58 seconds
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a QDS_SHUTDOWN_QUEUE wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
76 instances contributed data to this chart