Occurs when a task is waiting for a background task to flush trace buffers to disk every four seconds. 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.
SQLTRACE_BUFFER_FLUSH
Category: Idle
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008
This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.
What is SQLTRACE_BUFFER_FLUSH?
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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 SQLTRACE_BUFFER_FLUSH on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of SQLTRACE_BUFFER_FLUSH across the Spotlight Population
For 95 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 3.9 seconds
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a SQLTRACE_BUFFER_FLUSH wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
90 instances contributed data to this chart