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QPJOB_KILL

Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

What is QPJOB_KILL?

1 Answer

 

Indicates that an asynchronous automatic statistics update was canceled by a call to KILL as the update was starting to run. The terminating thread is suspended, waiting for it to start listening for KILL commands. A good value is less than one second. Information from Microsoft®

Never

This wait has never occurred recently

QPJOB_KILL has not occurred recently on 4207 instances checked.

Prevalence of QPJOB_KILL across the Spotlight Population