Re: waittype=WRITELOG

Marek Wierzbicki (marek.wierzbickiiiii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
In my server (MSSQL 2000 sp4) very often I see long time of executing
query with waittype=WRITELOG

Recovery is set to SIMPLE and there is no autoShrink.

Auto increment file size (log) is set to 10%

What can be the reason of this problem?

On my machine at home I see six processes with *last*waittype = WRITELOG.
All are system spids.

As far as I know you can see the current wait type in clear text anyway,
but there is a binary column waittype in sysprocesses.

This long-running query, is it performing any updates?

And most importantly, do you perceive any real performance problems?

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