Symptoms
When you compile a query and add it to the Query Store in SQL Server 2016, there can be significant wait times on mutex for accessing the hash map where statements are stored. Therefore, it may take a long time to finish this operation.
Cause
This problem is caused by a lock contention issue in the Query Store, where new queries are blocked when they are added to the Query Store. This fix replaces the SEList element with SEListSized, which explicitly holds the number of elements in the list.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server:
Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. We recommend that you download and install the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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