• I am sorry,

    I trusted Pinal Dave on this one, without crosschecking MS:

    http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/02/15/sql-server-lck_m_xxx-wait-type-day-15-of-28/

    who wrote

    "LCK_M_SCH_S - Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire a Schema Share lock."

    an correctly it's

    SCH_S <=> Schema stability

    SCH_M <=> Schema modification