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What is new in lock escalation in SQL Server 2008?

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What is new in lock escalation in SQL Server 2008?
posted Oct 16, 2015 by Shivaranjini

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Lock Escalation in SQL Server is mainly a nightmare. How will you delete more than 5.000 rows from a table without running into Lock Escalations? You can disable Lock Escalation temporarily, but you have to be very careful here. Another option is to make your DELETE/UPDATE statements in a loop as different, separate transactions: DELETE/UPDATE less than 5.000 rows, so that you can prevent Lock Escalations. As a very nice side-effect your huge, big transaction will be splitted into multiple smaller ones, which will also help you with Auto Growth issues that you maybe have with your transaction log.

answer Oct 16, 2015 by Vrije Mani Upadhyay
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