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Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals
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Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals

by Paul Randal Kalen Delaney Kimberly Tripp, and Conor Cunningham
March 2009
Intermediate to advanced
784 pages
30h 30m
English
Microsoft Press
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Internal Locking Architecture

Locks are not on-disk structures. You won’t find a lock field directly on a data page or a table header, and the metadata that keeps track of locks is never written to disk. Locks are internal memory structures—they consume part of the memory used for SQL Server. A lock is identified by lock resource, which is a description of the resource that is locked (a row, index key, page, or table). To keep track of the database, the type of lock, and the information describing the locked resource, each lock requires 64 bytes of memory on a 32-bit system and 128 bytes of memory on a 64-bit system. This 64-byte or 128-byte structure is called a lock block.

Each process holding a lock also must have a lock owner, which represents ...

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