Jack Vamvas is hunting deadlocks:
An application using SQL Server as the database backend was experiencing some application rollbacks. I decided to investigate the SQL Server to identify any errors which could be correlated to the application timeouts experienced by the users.
I started reviewing the errors in the Extended Events system health logs, which are normally running by default on a SQL Server. They have a ton of useful information . I noticed a steady stream of deadlocks . This is the code used to create a permanent table to store the deadlock details , for review by the application team.
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