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SHUTDOWN

Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2000, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

What is SHUTDOWN?

1 Answer

 

Occurs while a shutdown statement waits for active connections to exit. Information from Microsoft®

Never

This wait has never occurred recently

SHUTDOWN has not occurred recently on 4207 instances checked.

Prevalence of SHUTDOWN across the Spotlight Population