Occurs when memory request by a small query cannot be granted immediately due to other concurrent queries. Wait time should not exceed more than a few seconds, because the server transfers the request to the main query memory pool if it fails to grant the requested memory within a few seconds. High waits may indicate an excessive number of concurrent small queries while the main memory pool is blocked by waiting queries. Information from Microsoft®
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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_SMALL_QUERY
Category: Memory
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012
What is RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_SMALL_QUERY?
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answered 3318 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_SMALL_QUERY on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_SMALL_QUERY across the Spotlight Population
For 79 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.31 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_SMALL_QUERY wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
5 instances contributed data to this chart