What does "*password------------" mean in a profile deadlock report? In SQL Server 2008 R2, I got several deadlock reports that have "*password------------" in the input buffer. It looks like an attack but in that case I don't know the reason or the kind of attack.

(the log was generated by an expert DBA how has lot of experience and told me that, not me)

Does anyone know what it is? Thanks!

Example:

&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
&lt;blocked-process&gt;
  &lt;process id="process879948" taskpriority="0" logused="0" waitresource="KEY: 5:72057602473263104 (1d69201d0ba6)" waittime="5185" ownerId="88389135" transactionname="SELECT" lasttranstarted="2012-09-25T18:11:02.507" XDES="0x1f7d2a590" lockMode="S" schedulerid="2" kpid="4552" status="suspended" spid="86" sbid="2" ecid="0" priority="0" trancount="0" lastbatchstarted="2012-09-25T18:11:02.507" lastbatchcompleted="2012-09-25T18:11:02.507" lastattention="2012-09-25T18:07:35.740" clientapp=".Net SqlClient Data Provider" hostname="IP-xxxxxxxx" hostpid="4868" loginname="sa" isolationlevel="read committed (2)" xactid="88389135" currentdb="1" lockTimeout="4294967295" clientoption1="671088672" clientoption2="128056"&gt;
    &lt;executionStack&gt;
      &lt;frame line="14" stmtstart="374" stmtend="764" sqlhandle="0x03000500dac2967f208e4000a19d00000000000000000000"/&gt;
      &lt;frame line="1" stmtstart="44" sqlhandle="0x02000000632f7e131f79ec7312284505961e537a61b81be7"/&gt;
      &lt;frame line="1" sqlhandle="0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"/&gt;
    &lt;/executionStack&gt;
    &lt;inputbuf&gt;

*password---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   &lt;/inputbuf&gt;
  &lt;/process&gt;
&lt;/blocked-process&gt;
It just means that the text of the statement contained the string "password" and SQL Server "helpfully" has masked it as a security feature to prevent you seeing some one else's password.

I was able to reproduce this as follows

CREATE TABLE T(X varchar(1000))


Connection 1

BEGIN TRAN

INSERT INTO T VALUES('password1') 

WAITFOR DELAY '00:01:00'

SELECT * FROM T WHERE X = 'password2'

ROLLBACK


Connection 2

BEGIN TRAN

INSERT INTO T VALUES('password2') 

WAITFOR DELAY '00:01:00'

SELECT * FROM T WHERE X = 'password1'

ROLLBACK


Then retrieving the graph from the extended events trace