Index locking

Index locking blocks all access by other tasks to the entire table in a database. With index locking you may want to lock the index build for a column, not just the data items themselves

The circumstances where it is necessary to index lock include:

• Adding a new level to the root page
• Shrinking the root page
• Splitting or shrinking the immediate child of the root page, causing an update on the root page

Circumstances where it is not necessary to Index lock include where:newline

• You have small tables with index levels no higher than 3.
• You envision possible modifications to the root page of an indexnewline

An example of doing an aggregate function (sum of salary field)

• update happens along the way
• result depends on the order of interleavingnewline
• best to lock the index as well as the record.

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