Author: Warner Chaves

SQL Server COMPILE Locking and Encryption Keys

he morning begins with this page: “a large number of sessions are blocked on one of your managed SQL Server 2005.” So you go and check out the Activity Monitor, and you can tell something unusual is going on. Knowing the procedure, it’s then a matter of discarding possibilities. The common causes of COMPILE locking are well documented on the Microsoft KB, “Description of SQL Server blocking caused by compile locks”, so if you have a chance, go on and read that. If you don’t, then this is the gist of it here.

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