Locking is a fundamental part of every relational database, or Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). SQL Server is based on the relational database model, and as such uses locking when data is accessed. Even though we frequently relate locking to performance problems, it plays a vital role in making sure your data is reliable during concurrent workloads. The way SQL Server, or any other RDBMS for that matter, takes care of this data reliability is by following the “ACID” properties, which were originally defined by Jim Gray in the 1970s but ...