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 Posted by Don Vaillancourt on 01/14/06 00:41 
Oh, I know which queries are involved and which ones are usually the  
victims. 
 
But thanks for the trace idea. 
 
We haven't been able to replicate the deadlock issue in-house ass of  
yet, but I will certainly keep those options in mind and use them. 
 
Thank you 
 
 
Erland Sommarskog wrote: 
> Don Vaillancourt (donv@webimpact.com) writes: 
>> We have a problem with a table giving us deadlock issues and we can't  
>> figure out why. 
>> 
>> It's a table we write to fairly often perhaps 50 times a minute. And  
>> also do a select of 200 rows at a time from 4 servers every 5 minutes or 
>> so.  
>> 
>> We are only keeping 48 hours worth of rows in the table which averages  
>> at 30000 a day on a busy day. 
>> 
>> This table has 1 PK and 2 FKs plus one TEXT column which does not  
>> participate in the WHERE clause. 
>> 
>> We are using binded variables. 
>> 
>> We have applied the latest patch to SQL2003 server running on  
>> Windows2003.  The patch is supposed to resolve deadlock issues. 
>> 
>> Anyone have any advice on how to alleviate this problem. 
>  
> I'm afraid that there is not enough information your post to make it 
> possible to give solutions. 
>  
> Except one: if it is acceptable that one of the process is always 
> is the victim, make this process emit SET DEADLOCK_PRIORITY LOW. 
> We have done this in quite a few places in our system. Background 
> processes don't scream so much about deadlocks as users do. 
>  
> But if that is not an option, I can only suggest methods to get more 
> information. 
>  
> First, have you enabled deadlock trace on your server and looked at 
> the output? To enable deadlock trace, use Enterprise Manager to add 
> these two startup options: -T 1204 -T 3605. 
>  
> Once you have the deadlock output, try to narrow down exactly which 
> queries that collide. Once you have the queries, you could post them 
> together with the table definitions (including indexes!). Or you could 
> post the deadlock traces (which is not very easy to interpret). 
>
 
  
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