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You know what your deadlock graphs need? Animation.

Brent Ozar
Deadlocks
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In SQL Server Management Studio, plain ol’ deadlock graphs look like this: Two thumbs down, would not lock the dead again BOOOOO-RING. That’s why I prefer opening deadlock graphs in SentryOne Plan Explorer, which presents a much better visual in the form of a circle…a circle, let’s just stop there: Deadlock graph in SentryOne Plan…
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Brent getting caffeinated

How to Troubleshoot Blocking and Deadlocking with Scripts and Tools

Brent Ozar
Deadlocks, Monitoring, sp_BlitzLock
2 Comments
When you need to find which queries are blocking other queries, your decision comes down to when the blocking happened. Is it happening now, recently, or coming up soon? During a live emergency, start with sp_WhoIsActive. Adam Machanic’s excellent free sp_WhoIsActive replaces Activity Monitor, sp_who, and sp_who2, and it’s way more powerful. The documentation is extensive –…
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sp_BlitzLock showing deadlocks

How to Create Deadlocks and Troubleshoot Them

Brent Ozar
Deadlocks
3 Comments
Watch in awe and wonder as I create a deadlock, then use sp_BlitzLock after the fact to show you which queries and tables were involved: Here are the scripts to run in the left hand window: Transact-SQL CREATE TABLE dbo.Lefty (Numbers INT PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED); INSERT INTO dbo.Lefty VALUES (1), (2), (3); CREATE TABLE dbo.Righty…
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SQL Server Training by Kalen Delaney

Concurrency Week: Can SELECTs Win Deadlocks?

Brent Ozar
Deadlocks
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Yes, especially when they’re part of a larger transaction. In this example, I’m going to use a database in Read Committed Snapshot Isolation (RCSI), my favorite isolation level for building new applications from the ground up. Optimistic concurrency (aka MVCC) helps avoid a lot of blocking issues – but not all of them. In a…
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Column Store Deadlocks: Missing Information

Erik Darling
Deadlocks
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People seem to care about deadlocks That’s why I wrote sp_BlitzLock. Why not sp_BlitzDeadlock? Well, I had this song stuck in my head. But enough about that. While poking around with things recently, I created a pretty typical deadlock on a table, but this one had a clustered column store index on it. Of course,…
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