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BigSam
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Posted - 06/05/2006 :  09:59:32  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I was investigating a deadlock yesterday that caused me to restart SQL before I could complete researching the cause. However, the jist of my post relates to what I think is a strange deadlock situation. SPID 54 was blocking SPID 54 & SPID 54 was blocked by SPID 54. SPID 54 was an IIS connection. Can anyone give me an example of a transaction that can block itself?

Thanks

Big Sam

nr
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Posted - 06/05/2006 :  12:36:22  Show Profile  Visit nr's Homepage  Reply with Quote
You have sp4?

Are you sure that it deadlocked? It is common to get a spid marked as blocking itself due to parallelism - just means that the main thread is waiting for another thread to copmplete processing.
For it to deadlock sounds like a bug though.

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TG
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Posted - 06/05/2006 :  13:02:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
>>Can anyone give me an example of a transaction that can block itself?

I did see a very funky thing once where a developer emailed me the output of sp_who2 active showing a spid blocking itself. Turned out he was...let me get this straight...within a transaction, inserting to a table, calling xp_cmdshell which was in-turn was making an osql call that selected from the same table. I don't remember exactly what he was doing or why, and I'm sure it doesn't pertain to your situation. I just wanted to share

Actually now that I think about it, I remember trying to duplicate that but I couldn't get all the processes to work under the same spid, so maybe that self-blocking thing was due to parallelism as well...hmmm...oh well, nevermind

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