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KanishkaB
Copper Contributor
Apr 22, 2022

Blocking due to recompile locks

I am seeing a lot of blocking with wait resource as OBJECT: n:zzz:0 [COMPILE] and TAB: n:zzz:0 [COMPILE] with a lot of RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_QUERY_COMPILE waitstypes.

This is causing a lot of CPU overhead and it is almost reaching close to 100% most of the time.

We are running with 
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (RTM-CU16) (KB5011644) - 15.0.4223.1 (X64)
Apr 11 2022 16:24:07Copyright (C) 2019 Microsoft Corporation
Developer Edition (64-bit) on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter 10.0 <X64> (Build 14393: ) (Hypervisor)

Min Server Memory 51200 MB

Max Server Memory 112860 MB

Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8259CL CPU @ 2.50GHz, 2500 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)

RAM 128 GB

MAXDOP 1

CTP 5
Compatibility 130
LCE ON
The same combination test when run on similar SQL 2016 server with identical configuration is running without any issue.

Can anyone share anything on this as what could be the probable cause?

7 Replies

  • mcdasa's avatar
    mcdasa
    Brass Contributor
    I'm assuming query causes blocking problem, can you share what quries are running on server?
    Is it dynamic queries?
    • KanishkaB's avatar
      KanishkaB
      Copper Contributor

      The queries are a part of a stored procedure and they are not dynamic. The strange part is this behavior is not there when you run the same thing on SQL 2016. The tests are run across similar databases and configurations- one that I shared above. As for the query I am providing a replica of the actual below
      SELECT *,
      CASE WHEN @Var=1 AND t.Col1 = 0 AND t.Col2 = 1 AND t.Col3 = 0
      THEN (SELECT CASE WHEN exists(SELECT 1 FROM xx WHERE xxid=t.xxid)
      THEN (SELECT TOP 1 STATUS FROM xx WHERE xxid=t.xxid
      ORDER BY colxx DESC
      )
      ELSE -5
      END
      )
      ELSE -3
      END
      SomeName
      FROM #tmp t
      ORDER BY col4 ASC,
      col6 asc, col7 asc
      The issue is related to a problem I posted earlier- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server/sql-2019-std-edition-high-recompilation-and-cpu-spike/m-p/3290396#M1563
      pls go over it and see if you can provide any insights.

      • mcdasa's avatar
        mcdasa
        Brass Contributor
        you are using temp tables and every time procedure runs, datas in temp tables probably changes by CRUD and that will cause recompile issue(you can create xevent session that contains recompile event to track down RCA but i'm guessing that queries you mentioned above will probably get captured.)

        please read this article -
        https://www.sqlshack.com/sql-server-stored-procedure-recompilation-factors/

        so i am suggesting you to change your procedure not to use temp table.

        Just in case even using permanent table with truncate and modifing datas every time procedure runs also cause recompile. So please reconsider process of your work .

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