Resolving locking issues with SQL Server 2008 R2 can be troublesome -- but it can also be surprisingly straightforward.

For example, if an exclusive (X) lock is held on a row within a table by a transaction, no other transaction can modify that row until the lock is released. Minimizing locks increases concurrency, ...

How to Get Rid of SQL Locks. The SQL server is a database management system used for file storage and can be accessed through queries using the SQL language and command prompts.

In SQL Server, the WITH (NOLOCK) statement is used to perform dirty reads, which means that it allows the query to read uncommitted data from other transactions. This is commonly used to avoid locking ...

Zoho on Tuesday launched CloudSQL, a middleware layer that gives developers access to Zoho Applications data via a SQL database call.With the move, Zoho is playing an anti-lock-in card.