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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_WAIT_ENTRIES

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

This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.

What is SQLTRACE_WAIT_ENTRIES?

1 Answer

 

Occurs while a SQL Trace event queue waits for packets to arrive on the queue. Information from Microsoft®

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of SQLTRACE_WAIT_ENTRIES across the Spotlight Population

For 21 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 23 seconds

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

13 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of SQLTRACE_WAIT_ENTRIES across the Spotlight Population