Under heavy stress tests, the following error has been reported in the customer case 03178546

Caused by: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: Transaction (Process ID 1649) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.

The following fix didn't solve the issue: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3710781

To solve the issue, the following fix has been applied by the customer, in collaboration with SQL Server DBAs

We should evaluate to include the fix in the current script we provide for SQL Server:

"After we run a significant number of stress tests in the UAT environment, we ended up with the conclusion that there was something missing from the database schema.
The DDL script downloaded from the product site (sqlserver-jbpm-schema.sql) creates 2 indexes on EventTypes table:
I. create index IDX_EventTypes_Id ON EventTypes(InstanceId);
II. create index IDX_EventTypes_element ON EventTypes(element);
It seems that the second one is completely useless, since there are only SELECTs using InstanceId, INSERTs and DELETEs (“delete from EventTypes where InstanceId=? and element=?”), while there is no PK or an index that combines both database columns (“InstanceId” and “element”).
After we created a new index on both “InstanceId” and “element” the deadlocks completely disappeared. Also the performance of the delete statement was significantly improved."

Case number: https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/#/case/03178546