I was looking at a problem this morning about long blocking chains caused by the wait type DBMIRROR_DBM_EVENT, and it makes an interesting case study about database mirroring, blocking, undocumented wait types and general troubleshooting techniques for database mirroring. The information following relates ONLY to SQL 2005, SQL 2008 and SQL 2008 R2. However since...

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/grahamk/2011/01/10/sql-server-blocking-caused-by-database-mirroring-wait-type-dbmirror_dbm_event/