monProcessWaits

Description

Provides a list of all wait events for which current processes on the server are waiting. Returns only wait events whose Waits value is greater than zero.

NoteEnable the enable monitoring, process wait events, and wait event timing configuration parameters for this monitoring table to collect data.

Columns

Name

Datatype

Attribute

Description

SPID

smallint

Session process identifier

KPID

int

Kernel process identifier

WaitEventID

smallint

Unique identifier for the wait event

Waits

int

Counter

Number of times the process has waited for the event

WaitTime

int

Counter

Amount of time, in milliseconds, that the process has waited for the event

WaitEventInfo contains descriptions of each wait event. Join the WaitEventID column from each monitor table to view this data.

See Chapter 3, “Wait Events,” for a descriptions of select wait events.