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Maintaining Concurrency of database at row level (Locking)

Hi All,

Please help me with the way by which I can maintain concurrency of a database . For Ex->

Suppose I have a table named as Employee (id int,name varchar(20)) Data is ->

1 Rock 2 Austin 3 BigShow 4 John

Now how should I maintain row level lock on id = 2 ,If one application is trying to update row at id = 2 and simultaneously another application is trying to read the same row (id = 2)

Immediate reply would be appreciated!

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asked Jan 30 '12 at 10:06 PM in Default

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Are you wanting to manage the concurrency yourself, outside of the controls already built into SQL Server?

Concurrency and locking is controlled by the isolation level. The default , Read Committed, will protect your data exactly as you have described above. An Update will attempt to acquire an exclusive lock, whereas a read will request a shared lock - both of these together are incompatible, so either the read will be blocked until the update is committed, or the update will wait until the read has finished.

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answered Jan 30 '12 at 10:07 PM

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As @Kev Riley explains - you are worrying about implementing a feature that is already built into SQL Server unless you have changed the isolation level of your environment.

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answered Jan 31 '12 at 09:02 AM

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