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The charts are based on 2.1 TB of data collected from 4207 instances uploaded by 323 Spotlight users over an 8 week period.

RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_QUERY_COMPILE

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

What is RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_QUERY_COMPILE?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when the number of concurrent query compilations reaches a throttling limit. High waits and wait times may indicate excessive compilations, recompiles, or uncachable plans. Information from Microsoft®

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_QUERY_COMPILE across the Spotlight Population

For 65 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 130 ms

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

285 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_QUERY_COMPILE across the Spotlight Population