Digging into the Buffer I/O Wait Category

  • Hello,

    I can't seem to find much information on what the Buffer I/O wait category that you see in the SSMS activity monitor covers. From what I've been able to piece together, it seems to be aggregating some numbers from sys.dm_os_wait_stats, but I'm not sure which waits are used. Could somebody point me to a resource that would help?

    Thanks!

    Jim

  • It's absolutely using sys.dm_os_waits_stats. But if you want to know which query, just run extended events/trace to capture it.

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  • Thanks!

    Jim

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