JBoss hangs in database queries

Issue

• JBoss is unresponsive with many threads hanging in socket reads from database queries, for example:

"http-127.0.0.1-8080-1" daemon prio=10 tid=0x00007f60bc02b800 nid=0xb83 runnable [0x00007f60a52e7000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSChannel.read(IOBuffer.java:1782)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSReader.readPacket(IOBuffer.java:4838)
    - locked <0x000000074ca9e9a8> (a com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSReader)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSCommand.startResponse(IOBuffer.java:6150)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerPreparedStatement.doExecutePreparedStatement(SQLServerPreparedStatement.java:402)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerPreparedStatement$PrepStmtExecCmd.doExecute(SQLServerPreparedStatement.java:350)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSCommand.execute(IOBuffer.java:5696)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.executeCommand(SQLServerConnection.java:1715)
    - locked <0x00000007592fc208> (a java.lang.Object)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeCommand(SQLServerStatement.java:180)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeStatement(SQLServerStatement.java:155)
    at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerPreparedStatement.executeQuery(SQLServerPreparedStatement.java:285)
    at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrappedPreparedStatement.executeQuery(WrappedPreparedStatement.java:342)