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QUERY_EXECUTION_INDEX_SORT_EVENT_OPEN

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

What is QUERY_EXECUTION_INDEX_SORT_EVENT_OPEN?

1 Answer

 

Occurs in certain cases when offline create index build is run in parallel, and the different worker threads that are sorting synchronize access to the sort files. Information from Microsoft®

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

For each of 4207 instances, we ranked QUERY_EXECUTION_INDEX_SORT_EVENT_OPEN on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.

Prevalence of QUERY_EXECUTION_INDEX_SORT_EVENT_OPEN across the Spotlight Population

For 34 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 6.3 ms

For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a QUERY_EXECUTION_INDEX_SORT_EVENT_OPEN wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.

350 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of QUERY_EXECUTION_INDEX_SORT_EVENT_OPEN across the Spotlight Population