In the preceding chapter, I discussed how blocking works. Blocking is one of the primary causes of poor performance. Blocking can lead to a special situation referred to as a deadlock, which in turn means that deadlocks are fundamentally a performance problem. When a deadlock occurs between two or more transactions, SQL Server allows one transaction to complete and terminates the other transaction, rolling back the transaction. SQL Server then returns an error to the corresponding application, notifying the user that he has been chosen as a deadlock ...
22. Causes and Solutions for Deadlocks
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