monSysWaits

Description

Provides a server-wide view of the statistics for events on which processes have waited.

Enable the enable monitoring and wait event timing configuration parameters for this monitoring table to collect data.

Columns

The columns for monSysWaits are:

Name

Datatype

Attributes

Description

InstanceID

int

(Cluster environments only) ID of an instance in a shared-disk cluster.

WaitEventID

smallint

Unique identifier for the wait event

WaitTime

int

Counter

Amount of time (in seconds) tasks spent waiting for the event

Waits

int

Number of times tasks waited for the event

See Performance and Tuning: Monitoring Tables for more information

You can join the monSysWaits table with monWaitEventInfo using the WaitEventID columns as the join column to obtain the wait event descriptions. For example:

select w.Waits, w.WaitTime, w.WaitEventID, i.Description
from master..monSysWaits w, master..monWaitEventInfo i
where w.WaitEventID = i.WaitEventID