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Traditional locking approaches can result in applications blocking each other.
This happens when one application must wait for another application to release
its lock. Strategies to deal with the impact of such blocking usually provide a
mechanism to specify the maximum acceptable duration of the block. That is the
amount of time that an application will wait prior to returning without a lock.
Previously, this was only possible at the database level by changing the value of
the LOCKTIMEOUT database configuration parameter.
8.7 Buffer pool
Buffer pool is the place where all of the data pages are stored as the data is
being read from disk or newly added data is being inserted. Buffer pool plays an ...