What to know what is Latching in sqlserver and how it works

• Hassans

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  January 23, 2009 at 6:39 am

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  Hi,

  Can some body help me in understanding latching in sqlserver. I want to know in which way it works and purpose of it.

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  Hassan

• NitinPatel31

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  January 23, 2009 at 6:50 am

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  Latches are very lightweight, short-term synchronization objects protecting actions that need not be locked for the life of a transaction. They are primarily used to protect a row when read for a connection.

  See this for more

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa224727.aspx

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  Nitin