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1648566 - How to collect blocking lockstats history in DBACockpit

Symptom

The database uses locks to control data integrity in concurrency situations. A blocking lock is a situation in which a session holds a lock on a resource and thereby causes another session to wait in a holding queue until the current process is entirely done with the resources. As soon as the first session is complete, the blocked session resumes operation. In a normal server environment, infrequent blocking locks are normal and acceptable - frequent blocking locks might indicate several kinds of problems.

SQL Server itself does not log information about the blocking lock situations which occur - once a blocking lock situation has resolved it leaves no information in the database that would allow further analysis. For hanging situations or performance analysis it is important to have the history of blocking locks.


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Environment

SAP systems with transaction DBACockpit based on Microsoft SQL Server

Keywords

history performance blocking lock history turn collector job on st04 dbacockpit , KBA , BC-DB-MSS-CCM , CCMS/Database Monitors for SQL Server , How To

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