SQL Server Locks Interview Question:

What is SQL Server locking?

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SQL Server has 3 main lock types:

Shared: Locks are compatible with other shared and update locks.
Update: Locks are compatible with shared locks.
Exclusive: Locks are not compatible with any other locks.

Apart from lock types, there are transaction isolation levels for managing security among transactions:

READ UNCOMMITTED
READ COMMITTED
REPEATABLE READ
SERIALIZABLE

SQL Server has some locking optimizer hints along with lock types:

NOLOCK
HOLDLOCK
UPDLOCK
TABLOCK
PAGLOCK
TABLOCKX
READCOMMITTED
READUNCOMMITTED
REPEATABLEREAD
SERIALIZABLE
READPAST
ROWLOCK
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