RE: lock table...

2002-06-04 Thread Cal Evans
This is the way databases work. I'm guessing you (like I) come from a desktop database background where the system will lock a record for editing. Not so for SQL servers. One strategy you can use is to add a lock field to your record. Then, before you commit your change (issue the UPDATE stateme

Re: Lock Table for new index?

2001-11-14 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:28:53PM -0700, Karl J. Stubsjoen wrote: > Hello, > > I have a fairly active and large DB. I need to create a new index > on a column. It will take (just guessing) 15-30 minutes for the > entire creation. I've got different people hittiing this table all > the time, m

Re: LOCK TABLE/automatic repair function

2001-07-12 Thread Gerald Clark
The table not locke error occures when you have issued a lock tables command, and then access a table not included in the lock tables call. You must lock all tables you intend to access between the lock and unlock calls. Werner Stuerenburg wrote: > As I said earlier, I have troubles with 3 ta