DBCC CHECKDB blocking itself

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DBCC CHECKDB blocking itself

Mohammed Imran Ali

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December 23, 2013 at 12:39 am

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Hi,
DBCC CHECKDB on a ~600GB database and is taking quite a while to complete recently (~20 hrs). It completed in around 2 hrs.
While looking at it, the process running the DBCC CHECKDB command is blocking itself. The lastwaittype says as LATCH_EX and waitresource is DBCC_OBJECT_METADATA ().
Any help to improve this is much appreciated.
Cheers,

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free_mascot One Orange Chip Points: 27169 More actions · Answer 1

Usually DBCC CHECKDB should be executed during off-peak hours. What is type of server? i.e. prod, dev, test? what is the size of database? Command blocking spid is same as executing? Do you found any error in error log?

Check following link might help you:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/030b1c5a-f8ef-49a1-893d-50dffd71a84a/dbcc-checkdb-blocking-itself-sql-2008-mscrm

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Andrew G SSChampion Points: 12809 More actions · Answer 2

Are you on SQL2008R2 SP2? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2634571

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2012/02/23/a-faster-checkdb-part-ii.aspx

Try DBCC CHECKDB WITH PHYSICAL_ONLY

Mohammed Imran Ali SSCrazy Points: 2125 More actions · Answer 3

free_mascot (12/23/2013)
Usually DBCC CHECKDB should be executed during off-peak hours.

DBCC scheduled to run off-peak hours

What is type of server? i.e. prod, dev, test?

PROD

what is the size of database? Command blocking spid is same as executing? Do you found any error in error log?

~600GB is the size of the DB and the same spid is blocking itself. Of the 17 threads spawned, 7 are blocking itself with the waittype LATCH_EX and the remaining are waiting on CXPACKET

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906344/en-us

This kind of explains the behaviour. What would be the work around apart from waiting the 20+ hours?

VastSQL SSC-Dedicated Points: 36097 More actions · Answer 4

Blocking by the same process itself is not a big problem .

Mohammed Imran Ali SSCrazy Points: 2125 More actions · Answer 5

Ratheesh.K.Nair (12/23/2013)
Blocking by the same process itself is not a big problem .

Is there any other way to improve the execution time (has gone from 2 hrs to 20+ hrs) apart from just waiting

mark.umbach SSC Enthusiast Points: 146 More actions · Answer 6

I have found the exact same issue. Does anyone have a solution yet? On production I am doing a physical_only so the time there is not a problem but I am restoring the backup to another server in order to do a CHECKDB to make sure everything is in order. I pinpointed in down to a single table and the DBCC CHECKTABLE is taking 11 hours on a 1.1 billion row table that has a clustered index on two columns (int, bigint) and a non-clustered index on a single int column. There are no relationships.

Literally 100% latch time is DBCC_OBJECT_METADATA and it is always waiting on CXPACKET. There is a lot more CPU than I/O.

This is running on WS2012 std, SQL2012 SP2 (11.0.5569.0). 4 CPU, 12G.