July 12, 2013 at 7:36 am
Thought I would re-write as it didnt make sense to me!
When an update query is based on a join, so you use update
from which is inner joined to the original table, could there be potential issues of locking/blocking on the table.
Just thinking that the query would lock the table, exclusively but would the lock then prevent the inner join further along?
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July 13, 2013 at 5:09 pm
Locks that are granted to your session can only potentially block other sessions, never your session (if blocked, you are always blocked by other session).
So, the answer is: no.
Join is used to find the rows needed to be updated and values to update to, but you always update single table.
Use sys.dm_tran_locks to view the locks granted to your session. After commit (or rollback) locks are released, so you might investigate locks inside explicit transaction, like this:
begin tran
update ...
select * from sys.dm_tran_locks
-- rollback
July 15, 2013 at 6:48 am
Thanks the reply and confirming my thoughts. I didnt think that would be the case but I'll always go on the 'never know until someone confirms'...thanks again.
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