18 August 2009

DBMS: Intent Lock (Definitions)

"Indicates the intention to acquire a share or exclusive lock on a data page." (Karen Paulsell et al, "Sybase SQL Server: Performance and Tuning Guide", 1996)

"Specifies the intent to gain a shared or exclusive lock." (Owen Williams, "MCSE TestPrep: SQL Server 6.5 Design and Implementation", 1998)

"An lock that indicates that SQL Server wants to acquire a shared or exclusive lock on a more specific resource. An intent lock prevents another transaction from acquiring an exclusive lock on the resource containing that page or row." (Microsoft Corporation, "SQL Server 7.0 System Administration Training Kit", 1999)

"A lock of a larger object related to a locked small object. Implicitly, any small-grain lock implies a shared big-grain lock. If there is one or more locks on pages belonging to a table, then there will also be a lock on the table itself, as a separate lock record." (Peter Gulutzan & Trudy Pelzer, "SQL Performance Tuning", 2002)

"A lock placed on one level of a resource hierarchy to protect shared or exclusive locks on lower-level resources." (Anthony Sequeira & Brian Alderman, "The SQL Server 2000 Book", 2003)

"A lock on a resource that indicates that the holder of the lock will read (intent shared) or write (intent exclusive) the resource using concurrency control at a finer granularity than that of the resource with the intent lock. Intent locks allow concurrent readers and writers of a resource. See What type of locking does MongoDB use?." (MongoDb, "Glossary", 2008)

"A lock that is placed on one level of a resource hierarchy to protect shared or exclusive locks on lower-level resources." (SQL Server 2012 Glossary, "Microsoft", 2012)

"A type of lock placed on higher-level database objects when a user or process acquires locks on data pages or rows. An intent lock stays in place for the life of the lower-level locks." (Craig S Mullins, "Database Administration: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures" 2nd Ed., 2012)

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