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If I kill the offending spid anther spids pops up with the block/lock.!
I just ran into an issue with cascading locks due to a SPID on one of my production servers. When researching the lock, I noticed that there was no sql text. SP_Who 2, nor the following query captured anything,
SELECT sqltext.TEXT
, sqlplan.query_plan
, req.session_id
, req.status
, req.command
[Code] ....
I spoke to the user causing the lock and he ran into a visual basic error when this occurred and didn't close out that window. So my guess is that it's due to an uncommitted transaction. However, shouldn't I still see something if that was the case?
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This is the DDL for the table:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Inventory](
[EAN] [bigint] NOT NULL,
[Day] [smalldatetime] NOT NULL,
[State] [int] NOT NULL,
[Quantity] [int] NULL,
[StockValue] [float] NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Inventory] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
[code]...
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2. Partition the table
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Anyway, here is some test data and two versions of the executed SQL (the base code is all dynamic and the two code versions are the result of toggling the @MatchCase parameter).
/* ========================================
CREATE TABLE
======================================== */
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[PersonInfoSmall](
[PersonID] [BIGINT] NOT NULL,
[FirstName] [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL,
[MiddleName] [NVARCHAR](50) NULL,
[LastName] [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL,
[code]....
Hi,
We have a batch job that runs for about 45 min and reference couple of
tables in queries but on one of the table DD (dummy name) we want to
take a shared lock so that other sessions can read the table but no
session should be able to write to table, so at the beginning of
transaction/batch job we take a SHARED level table lock on this table.
Now the locking behavior is strange, If someone want to read the table
(IS on table DD) they are working fine but as soon as one of the DML
wants to modify the table and get blocked to get IX lock on DD other
sessions who just wants to read the table and need to get the IS lock
gets blocked so system is kind of hung after that. I tried the same
scenario on SQL Server 2005 and it works fine so this looks like kind
of bug in SQL Server 2000 unless Microsoft consider this as "AS
Designed" locking strategy. We can the following queries to reproduce
the issue:
>From QA window1 run the following code:
create table dd (dd int primary key, dd1 int,dd2 int)
set nocount on
declare @i int
begin
set @i=1
while (@i < 10000)
begin
insert into dd values(@i,@i+10000,@i+100000)
set @i=@i+1
end
end
Now we have a table with about 26 pages and 10k rows.
Now we run the following code from same window:
Begin Tran
select 1 from dd with(tablock,holdlock)
Don't commit at this point
And we will see the following using sp_lock:
57 7 850818093 0 TAB S GRANT
Now on Window2 in QA run the following code:
begin tran
insert into dd values(10000,10001,100001)
And we will see that session in window2 is waiting for IX lock:
56 7 850818093 0 TAB IX WAIT
57 7 850818093 0 TAB S GRANT
Now we run the following code from Windows3, we are just reading the
table and it still gets blocked:
select * from dd where dd=99
56 7 850818093 0 TAB IX WAIT
57 7 850818093 0 TAB S GRANT
66 7 850818093 0 TAB IS WAIT
Since this is fixed in SQL Server 2005 we are wondering if this is
known issue and there is any hotfix available or this is considered by
Microsoft as "as designed?
What is the other alternative to block writers on this table and allow
readers when this batch job is running?
Thanks
--Harvinder
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(
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pic a:
pic b:
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pic 1:
pic 2:
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