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When APPEND_ONLY_STORAGE_INSERT_POINT is a Bottleneck

Paul Randal explains the APPEND_ONLY_STORAGE_INSERT_POINT latch and describes when and why this might be a problem:

Continuing my series of articles on latches, this time I’m going to discuss the APPEND_ONLY_STORAGE_INSERT_POINT latch and show how it can be a major bottleneck for heavy update workloads where either form of snapshot isolation is being used.

I strongly recommend you read the initial post in the series before this one, so you have all the general background knowledge about latches.

As always, read the whole thing.