Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Lock Granularity Hints

You can use to lock granularity hints to override the lock granularity selected by the Query Optimizer:

ROWLOCK—You can use this option to force the Lock Manager to place a row-level lock on a resource instead of a page-level or a table-level lock. You can use this option in conjunction with the XLOCK lock type hint to force exclusive row locks.

PAGLOCK—You can use this option to force a page-level lock on a resource instead of a row-level or table-level lock. You can use this option in conjunction with the XLOCK lock type ...