self blockings

  • Hi Folks,

    am facing a critical problem in my production servers, like same process is blocking by itself, and there are resulting records(SPIDs) more than one time if i run sp_who2.

    for Ex: 70 is a spid it results more that 10 times if i run sp_who2 and it is blocking by 70(spid) itself.

    this is causing performance problem.

    what might be the problem and kindly help me please...

  • Parallel execution probably. Hard to know what to do without seeing the code though.

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  • I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with self blocking.

  • My guess is that this is actually a symptom of something else, likely a poor IO subsystem. Have you done a waitstats and file IO stall analysis? Also, what is the code and query plan of the offending query?

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    Kevin G. Boles
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