Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 05/28/05 21:16

Dan Guzman (guzmanda@nospam-online.sbcglobal.net) writes:
> Specify trace flag 3605 instead of 3604 to write the deadlock info to the
> SQL Server error log,
>
> DBCC TRACEON (1205,3605,-1)

And to make it even better, use 1204, not 1205. 1205 writes deadlock
information as well I believe, but on an extremely detailed level.

Unfortunately, the output from 1204 is cryptic, and far from trivial
to understand.



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