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Deadlocks

Mar 17, 2005

Our system is reasonably complex with a lot of non-trivial stored procedures. As the load on our DB increased we're now getting more and more deadlocks (10 per day or so from about a million stored proc executions).

We try to avoid transactions where we can, and we do attempt to optimse stored procs to steer clear of deadlock conditions, but with the sheer number of stored procedures we can't possibly avoid all deadlock conditions.

One solution I'm considering is to re-run stored procs that failed because of a deadlock. In the .net code we'll run the stored proc, check for a deadlock error and if one happened, wait 100ms and try again.

What do you guys think?

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Aug 13, 2002

Hi,

we have a production inviremont that is running for about 10 months. Since a couple of weeks we are having problems with "Deadlocks".

This cant be due to an increase in data size on the tables that are having the issues because these are cleaned in the same transaction that populates them.

These tables are used to store temporary data that the production system needs to calculate the correct price for any given order. This transaction takes between 0.5 to 1 second to commit.

We are running on a dual processor machine with 1 Gb of RAM with SQL Server 7 - sp 3, Windows NT 4 sp 6, Microsoft Transaction Server.

In all our queries and stored procedures we use the optimizer hints (nolock) for select statements and (rowlock) for updates or deletes.

Any help and/or suggestions would be appriciated.

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Dec 17, 1998

Is there any way to totally avoid deadlocks. In some critical applications
we have removed transactions entirely, counting on other means to maintain
database consistency. We still get deadlocks in this area. These are mainly
inserts, and the only thing I can think is that updates to the indexes are
causing multiple page locks which result in deadlocks. Is this true?

Will deadlocks be eliminated in 7.0 with row level locking for this situation?
Or will index page splits still cause a possibility of deadlock contention?

Thanks!
ben

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Mar 5, 2001

Hi ,

I have a problem with a SP in 6.5. When i try to run a Stored Proc which is a simple select statement dumped into a temp table in a particular database, I lock other users who are tring to log into other databases some in tempdb database. When i try to kill the process the rollback takes almost 45 mins or so..till then no one can log on to the server.

The SP works fine when no one is logged into the Great Plains server. One more thing i observed is that, the SP when run results on a deadlock only when the owner is a user. If the owner is DBO it works fine.

Can anybody throw some light on this.

Thanks in Advance
Siv

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Oct 27, 2004

Hi,

I've got a deadlock problem. The log below has been generated. The problem is that during one day, I have more than 300 deadlocks like it. Before, the were not so many deadlocks.
During past year, the number of users has grow (from 100 before to 500 or 700 now)

*** Deadlock Detected ***
- Requested by: SPID 360 ECID 0 Mode "S"
- Held by: SPID 113 ECID 0 Mode "S"
Index: aaaaa_PK
Table: TABLE_1
Database: MYDB
== Lock: KEY: 22:325576198:1 (ff009ae5078d)
- Requested by: SPID 113 ECID 0 Mode "S"
- Held by: SPID 374 ECID 0 Mode "X"
Index: aaaaa_PK
Table: TABLE_1
Database: MYDB
== Lock: KEY: 22:325576198:1 (ff009ae5078d)
- Requested by: SPID 374 ECID 0 Mode "IX"
- Held by: SPID 360 ECID 0 Mode "S"
Table: TABLE_2
Database: MYDB
== Lock: PAG: 22:1:2428
== Deadlock Lock participant information:
Input Buf: S E L E C T the_rest_of_the_query
SPID: 360 ECID: 0 Statement Type: UNKNOWN TOKEN Line #: 1
Input Buf: s p _ e x e c u t e 8
Input Buf: s p _ c u r s o r 8� B 8 8f � @ Table I
Input Buf: S E L E C T the_rest_of_the_query
SPID: 360 ECID: 0 Statement Type: SELECT Line #: 1
== Session participant information:
== Deadlock Detected at:
==> Process 360 chosen as deadlock victim

I have done :
- rebuild indexes on all tables (fillfactor 90)
- analysed memory activity

Could a lack of memory be at the origin of the problem ? Which counters in perfmon are significant for memory lack ?

Could the index fill factor could be at the origin of the problem ? At time, it is at 90 percent.

Config : Winnt4 Server, MS-SQL 7 SP4 , 2 GB of RAM , 2 x Xeon 700

Thanks for any help.

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Feb 16, 2004

Hi folks,

I have an application built on top of a questionable DB design which requires overcomplicated selects. The application is experiencing deadlocks regularly, in some cases with only one concurrent user.

I set the trace flag 1204 but am not seeing anything in the Error.log and I initiated a trace in profiler which does not seem to show any deadlock.
Despite having recreated the problem which show my browser hanging indefinitely. When I run the following queries:

SELECT spid, waittime, lastwaittype, waitresource
FROM master..sysprocesses
WHERE waittime > 10000
AND spid > 50

SELECT spid, cmd, status, loginame, open_tran, datediff(s, last_batch, getdate ()) AS [WaitTime(s)]
FROM master..sysprocesses p
WHERE open_tran > 0
AND spid > 50
AND datediff (s, last_batch, getdate ()) > 30
ANd EXISTS (SELECT * FROM master..syslockinfo l
WHERE req_spid = p.spid AND rsc_type <> 2)

I get:

55860978LCK_M_XPAG: 13:1:2573

54AWAITING COMMANDsleeping sa 11499
55UPDATE sleeping sa 21499

respectively. Any help would be welcome.

Thanks in advance,
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Sep 16, 2007

hi,

We have a SQL 2005 transaction database server that suddenly started to issue deadlock errors last week on most of the databases on that server and a lot of timeout errors. Before that, that database server performed very well and timeouts were minimal to zero. I am not sure what changed for it to have these performance problems.

The only major change we did was to convert several varchar columns to nvarchar in several tables (as part of internationalization initiatives). We did not modify the procs from varchar to nvarchar though but would be doing that phase by phase.

There is also one proc in which we used the snapshot isolation level of sql server 2005. These are only 2 major changes done within the past 2 weeks. Would these be the cause for these deadlocks and timeouts on our web-based application?

Any ideas?

Thx
Sri

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Morning All,
Am getting the following error from a number of users and am sort of wondering where to start in terms of diagnosing the problem. If anyone could give me any pointers on where to start in diagnosing the issue I would be grateful.
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Code:

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1
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Exception type: SqlException
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Aug 1, 2007

Hi,

We are facing Deadlock issues, when we try to execute a procedure for

different parameters simultaneously,

Example:

proc_name '20070630','755','Y','html'

proc_name '20070630','681','Y','html'

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When we are executing the above procedure simultaneously..we are getting

the Deadlock error..

We included 'With(Rowlock)'.But still we are getting deadlocks.

Here is the trace file for your reference.. We could not find the KEY

parameter in this Trace file and we are not able to find the object name

which is creating the Deadlock.

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2007-07-16 13:59:49.70 logon Login failed for user 'JUnitCustomer'.

2007-07-16 14:00:11.01 logon Login failed for user 'JUnitCustomer'.

2007-07-16 14:00:11.06 logon Login failed for user 'JUnitCustomer'.

2007-07-16 14:00:11.17 logon Login failed for user 'JUnitCustomer'.

2007-07-16 14:00:11.21 logon Login failed for user 'JUnitCustomer'.

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SPID:78 ECID:0 Ec0x6B133538) Value:0x6a

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Victim Resource Owner:

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 ResType:LockOwner Stype:'OR' Mode: IX

SPID:78 ECID:0 Ec0x6B133538) Value:0x6a

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Requested By:

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Grant List 2::

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Input Buf: Language Event:

proc_create_fsa_export '20070630','755','Y','html'

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 SPID: 74 ECID: 0 Statement Type: UPDATE

Line #: 252

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Owner:0x219ed520 Mode: S Flg:0x0 Ref:0

Life:00000001 SPID:74 ECID:0

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Grant List 0::

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 PAG: 10:1:3325 CleanCnt:2 Mode: SIU Flags:

0x2

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Node:2

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 ResType:LockOwner Stype:'OR' Mode: IX

SPID:74 ECID:0 Ec0x7BB75538) Value:0x54

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Requested By:

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Input Buf: Language Event:

proc_create_fsa_export '20070630','284','Y','html'

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 SPID: 78 ECID: 0 Statement Type: UPDATE

Line #: 224

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Owner:0x1c109a00 Mode: S Flg:0x0 Ref:0

Life:00000001 SPID:78 ECID:0

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Grant List 2::

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Grant List 0::

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 PAG: 10:1:45083 CleanCnt:2 Mode: SIU Flags:

0x2

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Node:1

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 Wait-for graph

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4

2007-07-16 14:00:39.90 spid4 ...

2007-07-16 14:00:41.29 logon Login failed for user 'JUnitCustomer'.

2007-07-16 14:00:41.32 logon Login failed for user 'JUnitCustomer'.

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2. We run an SP against the holding table to test those items; some get flagged as valid, some as invalid.
3. We run a subsequent SP that inserts the valid items into the main table and then deletes them from the holding table.

In our concurrency testing, we're encountering deadlocks, and I'm struggling to figure out why. In step 2, for instance, the SP code looks like this:

BEGIN TRANSACTION
UPDATE HoldingTable SET
Valid = CASE WHEN <condition1> THEN 0 WHEN <condition2> THEN 0 ... ELSE 1 END,
Reason = CASE WHEN <condition1> THEN 'reason1' WHEN <condition2> THEN 'reason2' ... ELSE 'valid' END

WHERE BatchID = @BatchID
COMMIT

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Our first thought was that the contending processes are deadlocking over pages containing rows from both batches. This seemed unlikely, but we thought, what the heck, let's create a clustered index on BatchID, PK, which should keep batch 1's rows out of the same pages that batch 2's rows are in. That had no discernable effect: we still got deadlocks.

Our next thought was that the number of rows involved is large enough that both processes are escalating from page locks to table locks during the update. It seems to us that this would create a deadlock.

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Any help with deadlocks ?
I keep getting deadlocks..and can't figure out why....
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ok, about a few months ago I brought up the issues we were having with deadlocks. My company is running a .net data entry application hitting against a sql 2000 box. Forget hardware since we have more then enough hardware to handle the load.

The issue we are seeing is we get a process that blocks a table, and the bulding up of block process that cause timeouts/deadlocks etc. A couple of things we see when this happens is that .net on the web server seems to open up more and more connections(it seems to double or triple the connections as the blocking begins), we start to see deadlocks and we see alot of timeouts in the app due to the blocking.

The blocking aways happen on an insert of an order or a customer. One thing I keep wondering about is how we handle the unique id for our tables. Our DBA had us put in the following:

Begin Trans
select max(id) + 1
insert....
commit trans

I've heard from a few here and in other forums this is the wrong way to go. I'm still get a gut feeling that this could start causing issues like what we are seeing. My problem is I'm not knowledgable enough to make a strong enough case with it.

What I need help is getting enough information to either point to how we manage ID's or at the very least rule them out. I've done searchs in google and some other search engines but there doesnt seem to be any good articles on how best to handle unique ids and show a good case for it. I do know I can use sql identity, or even guid with the newid() function but I need solid proof before my boss will move to one of these methods. Any links you guys can give or even your own write up will really help my case and hopefully help my headache.

Thanks Ahead of time

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Snapshot Replication Deadlocks

Feb 4, 2004

Is there anyway to prevent deadlocks during the snapshot replication?

I understand that you can minimize by maybe creating a couple different snapshots (mixing tables to minimize locking while snapshot is being created), but is there any other way?

Thank you

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