I am going to start a series of posts to talk about Locking and blocking in SQL Server, which is one of my favorate topics. As a SQL Server developer, many professionals are more focusing on programming languages, database designs, features (like Service Broker), writting SQLs to effectively manipulate data and process designs. They’re all correct. But one more thing is quite frequently getting neglected is locking. Especially after SQL Server 2005, Snapshot isolatioin level is used more frequent than others. It seems like SQL Server will never locked. Actually, that’s not the fact. Nothing has been changed from locking perspective before and after version 2005. After having a fully understanding of locking and blocking mechanism, you will find out you can easily write a high concurrency application, prevent excessive blocking, and design more sophisticated concurrent SQL process controls.

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