Database troubleshooting is not for the faint of heart, especially when it comes to troubleshooting locking and blocking problems. Sometimes the elephant in the room is actually a rhino, a problem ...

Blocking is a very common in databases and is to be expected, however excessive blocking decreases concurrency and throughput and should be investigated with a view to reducing it. The chapter ...

The instance of the SQL Server Database Engine cannot obtain a LOCK resource at this time. Rerun your statement when there are fewer active users. Ask the database administrator to check the lock and ...