At PASS Summit earlier this year, Bob Ward an Escalation Engineer in Microsoft Product Support, vowed to create a Wait Type Repository over on the PSS Blog that does a better job of documenting SQL Server Wait Types to assist the community. He create a blog post that he is updating over time to document the wait types in SQL Server.
The SQL Server Wait Type Repository…
Bob posted an update to the blog recently and attached an Excel Spreadsheet that can be downloaded by clicking on the link at the bottom of the blog post. This is an excellent resource for learning more about specific wait types in SQL Server. In addition there are other references listed on the blog post. If you are interested in knowing more about wait types in SQL Server checkout Bob’s blog post.