Microsoft KB Archive/826754

= FIX: A Deadlock Occurs If You Run an Explicit UPDATE STATISTICS Command =

Article ID: 826754

Article Last Modified on 11/2/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Personal Edition
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Workgroup Edition
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (Windows)
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition 64-bit

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BUG #: 470125 (SHILOH_BUGS)



SYMPTOMS
If you run an explicit UPDATE STATISTICS command against the same table from two different connections at the same time, the two connections may deadlock. One of the connections receives the following error message, and its UPDATE STATISTICS command is canceled:

Server: Msg 1205, Level 13, State 50, Line 3

Transaction (Process ID 52) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.

Deadlocks and their accompanying 1205 errors are not unique to this situation. Deadlocks may also occur in many other, unrelated scenarios. If you enable trace flag 1204 to capture more details about this particular deadlock, you see the two connections deadlocked on clustered index KEY resources on the sysindexes table (object ID 2). One of the two connections tries to convert a shared lock to an update lock, and trace flag 1204 output reports the statement type for both connections as UPDATE STATISTICS.



Service pack information
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

290211 How to obtain the latest SQL Server 2000 service pack

Hotfix information
The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.   Date         Time   Version            Size    File name ---  31-May-2003  18:45  2000.80.818.0      78,400  Console.exe 25-Jun-2003 01:01  2000.80.818.0      33,340  Dbmslpcn.dll 25-Apr-2003 02:12                    786,432  Distmdl.ldf 25-Apr-2003 02:12                  2,359,296  Distmdl.mdf 30-Jan-2003 01:55                        180  Drop_repl_hotfix.sql 23-Jun-2003 22:40  2000.80.837.0   1,557,052  Dtsui.dll 23-Jun-2003 22:40  2000.80.837.0     639,552  Dtswiz.dll 24-Apr-2003 02:51                    747,927  Instdist.sql 03-May-2003 01:56                      1,581  Inst_repl_hotfix.sql 08-Feb-2003 06:40  2000.80.765.0      90,692  Msgprox.dll 01-Apr-2003 02:07                      1,873  Odsole.sql 05-Apr-2003 01:46  2000.80.800.0      62,024  Odsole70.dll 07-May-2003 20:41  2000.80.819.0      25,144  Opends60.dll 02-Apr-2003 21:48  2000.80.796.0      57,904  Osql.exe 02-Apr-2003 23:15  2000.80.797.0     279,104  Pfutil80.dll 04-Aug-2003 18:17                    550,780  Procsyst.sql 22-May-2003 22:57                     19,195  Qfe469571.sql 11-Jul-2003 17:04                  1,084,147  Replmerg.sql 04-Apr-2003 21:53  2000.80.798.0     221,768  Replprov.dll 08-Feb-2003 06:40  2000.80.765.0     307,784  Replrec.dll 13-Aug-2003 16:28                  1,086,797  Replsys.sql 13-Aug-2003 16:28                    986,603  Repltran.sql 29-Jul-2003 20:13  2000.80.819.0     492,096  Semobj.dll 31-May-2003 18:27  2000.80.818.0     172,032  Semobj.rll 05-Aug-2003 21:06                    127,884  Sp3_serv_uni.sql 01-Jun-2003 01:01  2000.80.818.0   4,215,360  Sqldmo.dll 07-Apr-2003 17:44                     25,172  Sqldumper.exe 19-Mar-2003 18:20  2000.80.789.0      28,672  Sqlevn70.rll 02-Jul-2003 00:18  2000.80.834.0     180,736  Sqlmap70.dll 08-Feb-2003 06:40  2000.80.765.0      57,920  Sqlrepss.dll 13-Aug-2003 20:04  2000.80.851.0   7,598,161  Sqlservr.exe 25-Jul-2003 21:44  2000.80.845.0     590,396  Sqlsort.dll 08-Feb-2003 06:40  2000.80.765.0      45,644  Sqlvdi.dll 25-Jun-2003 01:01  2000.80.818.0      33,340  Ssmslpcn.dll 01-Jun-2003 01:01  2000.80.818.0      82,492  Ssnetlib.dll 01-Jun-2003 01:01  2000.80.818.0      25,148  Ssnmpn70.dll 01-Jun-2003 01:01  2000.80.818.0     158,240  Svrnetcn.dll 31-May-2003 18:59  2000.80.818.0      76,416  Svrnetcn.exe 30-Apr-2003 23:52  2000.80.816.0      45,132  Ums.dll 02-Jul-2003 00:19  2000.80.834.0      98,816  Xpweb70.dll Note Because of file dependencies, the most recent hotfix or feature that contains these files may also contain additional files.

This fix is SQL Server build number 851, and it can only be applied to a computer that is running SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) or a hotfix build that is based on SQL Server SP3.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, do not run UPDATE STATISTICS from two connections at the same time against the same table.



MORE INFORMATION
This problem only occurs for explicit UPDATE STATISTICS commands or for the sp_updatestats stored procedure. (The sp_updatestats stored procedure runs UPDATE STATISTICS.) This problem does not occur because of the auto update statistics or the auto create statistics database options or because of explicit CREATE STATISTICS commands. This hotfix serializes UPDATE STATISTICS commands that act on the same table, in the same way that statistics creation and auto update statistics events are already serialized.

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