Showing posts with label RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE. Show all posts

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Troubleshooting SQL server RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE Wait Type

Application users were complaining that web applications were slow.  Turned out there were some bad queries that were requesting up to 1GB of SQL RAM to execute.  It's no wonder SQL was suspending queries waiting for memory...

Reference:
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2827/troubleshooting-sql-server-resourcesemaphore-waittype-memory-issues/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlqueryprocessing/archive/2010/02/16/understanding-sql-server-memory-grant.aspx