Deadlocks

  • Is there a way to find deadlocks on a server without having Admin rights to the server?. Due to SOX we have no rights to the production server and we have a major deadlock problem.

  • I do not think so. Profiler really helps here, but that requires SA access. There is an article on this site about tracing deadlocks.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/skumar/tracingdeadlocks.asp

  • This is one of those issues...

    When I have clients call me up with problems like this I tell them:  If you have SA access I'll spend ten minutes with you for free and help you find or solve the problem, if you don't have SA access, my rate is $500 per hour and I don't know how long it will take me... 

  • If there is someone you can ask that has 'sa' authority have them set Trace Flag 1204 on? This will right the deadlock information to the SQL Server Error Log and then you can troubleshoot from there...of course only if you have permissions to the error logs!

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