Microsoft KB Archive/328550

= FIX: Resource Contention Occurs When You Update Multiple Tables That Have a Timestamp Column =

Article ID: 328550

Article Last Modified on 9/27/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q328550



BUG #: 361976 (SHILOH_BUGS)



SYMPTOMS
Unexpected resource contention can occur when you modify multiple tables that contain a timestamp column. This contention may lead to blocking on the computer that is running SQL Server. The waittime's that are associated with the system process IDs (SPIDs) during this contention are generally small at any particular snapshot; however, the contention might lead to longer than expected run times for an UPDATE or an INSERT statement.

A section of the sysprocesses table output with the resource contention is shown here (6:1:9 corresponds to DbID:6, FileID:1, PageId:9):

spid   kpid    blocked waittype             waittime       lastwaittype    waitresource

53 5644    0   0x00000414  437     0x00000414  6:1:9 61 4424    0   0x00000414  453     0x00000414  6:1:9 65 4440    0   0x00000414  359     0x00000414  6:1:9 68 3908    0   0x00000414  453     0x00000414  6:1:9 73 1660    0   0x00000414  453     0x00000414  6:1:9 78 728 0   0x00000414  437     0x00000414  6:1:9 80 5956    0   0x00000414  344     0x00000414  6:1:9 88 4732    0   0x00000414  437     0x00000414  6:1:9 90 3972    0   0x00000414  359     0x00000414  6:1:9 92 3556    0   0x00000414  437     0x00000414  6:1:9



RESOLUTION
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 INF: How To Obtain the Latest SQL Server 2000 Service Pack

NOTE: The following hotfix was created before the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3.

The English version of this fix 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 ---

8/30/2002  19:46   8.00.680   7,293 KB   Sqlservr.exe NOTE: Because of file dependencies, the most recent hotfix or feature that contains the files may also contain additional files.



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 3.