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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_LOCK

Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2012

What is SQLTRACE_LOCK?

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of SQLTRACE_LOCK across the Spotlight Population

For 58 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 6.8 ms

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

265 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of SQLTRACE_LOCK across the Spotlight Population