I am glad to announce that the month of Wait Types and Queues is very successful. I am glad that it was very well received and there was great amount of participation from the community.
I am fortunate to have some of the excellent comments throughout the series. I want to dedicate this series to all the guest bloggers – Jonathan, Jacob, Glenn, and Feodor for their kindness to take participation in this series.
Here is the complete list of the blog posts in this series.
I enjoyed writing the series and I plan to continue writing similar series. Please offer your opinion.
SQL SERVER – Introduction to Wait Stats and Wait Types – Wait Type – Day 1 of 28
SQL SERVER – Signal Wait Time Introduction with Simple Example – Wait Type – Day 2 of 28
SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_wait_stats Explanation – Wait Type – Day 3 of 28
SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks and sys.dm_exec_requests – Wait Type – Day 4 of 28
SQL SERVER – Capturing Wait Types and Wait Stats Information at Interval – Wait Type – Day 5 of 28
SQL SERVER – CXPACKET – Parallelism – Usual Solution – Wait Type – Day 6 of 28
SQL SERVER – CXPACKET – Parallelism – Advanced Solution – Wait Type – Day 7 of 28
SQL SERVER – SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD – Wait Type – Day 8 of 28
SQL SERVER – IO_COMPLETION – Wait Type – Day 10 of 28
SQL SERVER – ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION – Wait Type – Day 11 of 28
SQL SERVER – FT_IFTS_SCHEDULER_IDLE_WAIT – Full Text – Wait Type – Day 13 of 28
SQL SERVER – BACKUPIO, BACKUPBUFFER – Wait Type – Day 14 of 28
SQL SERVER – LCK_M_XXX – Wait Type – Day 15 of 28
SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Jonathan Kehayias – Wait Type – Day 16 of 28
SQL SERVER – WRITELOG – Wait Type – Day 17 of 28
SQL SERVER – LOGBUFFER – Wait Type – Day 18 of 28
SQL SERVER – PREEMPTIVE and Non-PREEMPTIVE – Wait Type – Day 19 of 28
SQL SERVER – MSQL_XP – Wait Type – Day 20 of 28
SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Jacob Sebastian – Filestream – Wait Types – Wait Queues – Day 22 of 28
SQL SERVER – OLEDB – Link Server – Wait Type – Day 23 of 28
SQL SERVER – 2000 – DBCC SQLPERF(waitstats) – Wait Type – Day 24 of 28
SQL SERVER – 2011 – Wait Type – Day 25 of 28
SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Glenn Berry – Wait Type – Day 26 of 28
SQL SERVER – Best Reference – Wait Type – Day 27 of 28
SQL SERVER – Summary of Month – Wait Type – Day 28 of 28
Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)












Love to see tuning and performance, tsql, designing database in details for month. Enjoyed wait type month.
Thank you
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