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View Deadlock Graphs

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Run this script on the server that is generating deadlock traces. It assumes that the trace file will have the name "Deadlock" somewhere in it's filename.

You can optionally set the file to be loaded.

When you run this script, it will shred the XML deadlock graph, and display information contained within it in a table format.

-- get information about all traces
-- select * from ::fn_trace_getinfo(0)

-- declare variables.
declare @trace_id int,
 @file nvarchar(256)
 
-- get the traceid and file for the first deadlock trace that is running.
-- assumes that the deadlock trace will have the name "Deadlock" in it's filename. 
select top 1
 @trace_id = traceid,
 @file = convert(nvarchar(256), value)
 from ::fn_trace_getinfo(0)
where property = 2
 and convert(nvarchar(256), value) like N'%Deadlock%'

-- you can set the @file variable manually here if you want to view an older trace file
-- set @file = ''


;with CTE as
(
select 
 [TraceID] = @trace_id , 
 [RowID] = row_number() OVER (ORDER BY StartTime), -- assign a row number to each deadlock
 [DeadlockGraph]=case when TextData like '<deadlock-list%' then convert(xml, TextData) else null end, 
 * 
 from ::fn_trace_gettable(@file, default)
where TextData like '<deadlock-list%'
)
select 
 [TimeoutID] = CTE.RowID,
 [DeadlockTime] = [StartTime],
 [DeadlockGraph],
 [PagelockObject] = CTE.[DeadlockGraph].value('/deadlock-list[1]/deadlock[1]/resource-list[1]/pagelock[1]/@objectname', 'varchar(200)'),
 [DeadlockObject] = CTE.[DeadlockGraph].value('/deadlock-list[1]/deadlock[1]/resource-list[1]/objectlock[1]/@objectname', 'varchar(200)'),
 [Victim] = case when Deadlock.Process.value('@id', 'varchar(50)') = CTE.[DeadlockGraph].value('/deadlock-list[1]/deadlock[1]/@victim', 'varchar(50)') then 1 else 0 end,
 [Procedure] = Deadlock.Process.value('executionStack[1]/frame[1]/@procname[1]', 'varchar(200)'),
 [LockMode] = Deadlock.Process.value('@lockMode', 'char(1)'),
 [Code] = Deadlock.Process.value('executionStack[1]/frame[1]', 'varchar(1000)'),
 [ClientApp] = Deadlock.Process.value('@clientapp', 'varchar(100)'),
 [HostName] = Deadlock.Process.value('@hostname', 'varchar(20)'),
 [LoginName] = Deadlock.Process.value('@loginname', 'varchar(20)'),
 [TransactionTime] = Deadlock.Process.value('@lasttranstarted', 'datetime'),
 [InputBuffer] = Deadlock.Process.value('inputbuf[1]', 'varchar(1000)')
 from CTE
 CROSS APPLY CTE.[DeadlockGraph].nodes('/deadlock-list/deadlock/process-list/process') as Deadlock(Process)
-- ORDER BY [DeadlockObject], [ClientApp], [Procedure], [Code]

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