what is S-Lock?

  • Hi all,

    what is S-Lock in SQL! how can i use that in system!

    Thanks

  • It's a shared lock and is used for read only operations, such as a SELECT statement.  If an operation has a shared lock on a resource, another operation can also acquire a shared lock or an update lock on the same resource.  See "Understanding Locking in SQL Server" in BOL.

    Greg

    Greg

  • But how can i implement on the DB!

    Thanks

  • What do you mean by implement? S-locks are assigned by SQL Server based on the query.

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  • You can change the type of locks that SQL takes out by changing the transaction isolation level or by using a (no_lock) hint

  • Would you please give me an example that how can i set the lock on all the sp or queries?

    Please

     

    Thanks

  • You can search in BOL for "NOLOCK". I would advice you to start using BOL. You will find answers for most of your queries there.... & it should be the first place where you search for answers.

    I am pasting the page from BOL what I got by searching for "NOLOCK". Example is also given there.

    From BOL....

    A range of table-level locking hints can be specified using the SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements to direct Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 to the type of locks to be used. Table-level locking hints can be used when a finer control of the types of locks acquired on an object is required. These locking hints override the current transaction isolation level for the session.

    Note The SQL Server query optimizer automatically makes the correct determination. It is recommended that table-level locking hints be used to change the default locking behavior only when necessary. Disallowing a locking level can affect concurrency adversely.

    Locking hint Description

    HOLDLOCK Hold a shared lock until completion of the transaction instead of releasing the lock as soon as the required table, row, or data page is no longer required. HOLDLOCK is equivalent to SERIALIZABLE.

    NOLOCK Do not issue shared locks and do not honor exclusive locks. When this option is in effect, it is possible to read an uncommitted transaction or a set of pages that are rolled back in the middle of a read. Dirty reads are possible. Only applies to the SELECT statement.

    PAGLOCK Use page locks where a single table lock would usually be taken.

    READCOMMITTED Perform a scan with the same locking semantics as a transaction running at the READ COMMITTED isolation level. By default, SQL Server 2000 operates at this isolation level.

    READPAST Skip locked rows. This option causes a transaction to skip rows locked by other transactions that would ordinarily appear in the result set, rather than block the transaction waiting for the other transactions to release their locks on these rows. The READPAST lock hint applies only to transactions operating at READ COMMITTED isolation and will read only past row-level locks. Applies only to the SELECT statement.

    READUNCOMMITTED Equivalent to NOLOCK.

    REPEATABLEREAD Perform a scan with the same locking semantics as a transaction running at the REPEATABLE READ isolation level.

    ROWLOCK Use row-level locks instead of the coarser-grained page- and table-level locks.

    SERIALIZABLE Perform a scan with the same locking semantics as a transaction running at the SERIALIZABLE isolation level. Equivalent to HOLDLOCK.

    TABLOCK Use a table lock instead of the finer-grained row- or page-level locks. SQL Server holds this lock until the end of the statement. However, if you also specify HOLDLOCK, the lock is held until the end of the transaction.

    TABLOCKX Use an exclusive lock on a table. This lock prevents others from reading or updating the table and is held until the end of the statement or transaction.

    UPDLOCK Use update locks instead of shared locks while reading a table, and hold locks until the end of the statement or transaction. UPDLOCK has the advantage of allowing you to read data (without blocking other readers) and update it later with the assurance that the data has not changed since you last read it.

    XLOCK Use an exclusive lock that will be held until the end of the transaction on all data processed by the statement. This lock can be specified with either PAGLOCK or TABLOCK, in which case the exclusive lock applies to the appropriate level of granularity.

    For example, if the transaction isolation level is set to SERIALIZABLE, and the table-level locking hint NOLOCK is used with the SELECT statement, key-range locks typically used to maintain serializable transactions are not taken.

    USE pubs

    GO

    SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE

    GO

    BEGIN TRANSACTION

    SELECT au_lname FROM authors WITH (NOLOCK)

    GO

    The locks generated are:

    EXEC sp_lock

    GO

    spid dbid ObjId IndId Type Resource Mode Status

    1 1 0 0 DB S GRANT

    6 1 0 0 DB S GRANT

    7 1 0 0 DB S GRANT

    8 4 0 0 DB S GRANT

    8 4 0 0 DB S GRANT

    8 4 117575457 0 TAB Sch-S GRANT

    9 4 0 0 DB S GRANT

    9 1 21575115 0 TAB IS GRANT

    SELECT object_name(117575457)

    GO

    -----------------------------

    authors

    The only lock taken that references authors is a schema stability (Sch-S) lock. In this case, serializability is no longer guaranteed.

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