This article isn’t about the act of lock escalation itself, which is already well documented and generally well understood. Some myths (like row locks escalating to page locks) persist, but challenging those yet again probably wouldn’t change much.
2022-09-19
Reports summaries, in 3 levels of detail, connections, running requests, open transactions + cursors, and blocking. Provides query text + plan for the piggiest running request of each group.
2009-10-26 (first published: 2008-09-18)
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2008-05-16
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One of the issues you'll face with SQL Server is blocking which is caused by other processes that are holding locks on objects. Until the locks are removed on an object the next process will wait before proceeding. This is a common process that runs within SQL Server to ensure data integrity, but depending on how transactions are run this can cause some issues. Are there ways to get around blocking by using different indexes to cover the queries that may be running?
2008-05-02
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Script to log top blocker processes in a database. Top blocker is defined as the process that is at the top of a blocking chain.
2012-07-12 (first published: 2007-10-30)
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2007-10-19 (first published: 2007-07-25)
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A quick little standalone script that tells you what process is blocking and what processes the blocking processing actually blocking.When running this script in QA, change your output to "Results in Text" ( CTRL-T ). Utilizes the blocking info in sp_who2 combined with dbcc inputbuffer and a little cursor to wrap it all up. Formatting […]
2007-04-19 (first published: 2007-03-20)
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spWhatsRunning does just that. It tells you exactly what is executing on your server. By combining the output of the sp_who and dbcc inputbuffer, this script will tell you exactly whats being executed. DBCC INPUTBUFFER will tell you the same thing, but by the time you get the spid, the offending process may be gone. […]
2007-04-17 (first published: 2007-03-20)
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In this article I will try to justify why Table variables are superior to temporary tables.
2006-10-10
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The following script will allow the user to get information from all spids that have a program name associated with them. That is event info out of dbcc inputbuffer. Additional columns may be added and used in the table through simple modifications of the script. I just found it useful for troubleshooting and setting up […]
2006-10-19 (first published: 2006-09-29)
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By Steve Jones
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I am dealing with issues on my SQL Server 2022 instance related to collation. I have an instance collation of Latin1_General_CS_AS_KS_WS, but a database collation of Latin1_General_CI_AS. I want to force a few queries to run with a specified collation by using code like this:
DECLARE @c VARCHAR(20) = 'Latin1_General_CI_AS'
SELECT p.PersonType,
p.Title,
p.LastName,
c.CustomerID,
c.AccountNumber
FROM Person.Person AS p
INNER JOIN Sales.Customer AS c
ON c.PersonID = p.BusinessEntityID
COLLATE @c
Will this solve my problem? See possible answers