I have a programmer who has created a massive temporary table that inserts into another massive table with no commits (80 gigs). Currently, he has over 30,000 locks on tempdb, any idea what causes this or if it might be a problem with SQL SERVER and not the code?
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lock problems on tempdb
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nigelrivett
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Every time the server allocates an extent to a table it places a lock on it (e.g. while the insert is taking place) - this could be what you are seeing.
The creation of a temp table should be done outside a transaction as until it updates persistent data there is no need for a rollback. Do all te temp table processing first then create a transaction to update tables.
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Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.
DTS can be used in a similar way.
Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy.
The creation of a temp table should be done outside a transaction as until it updates persistent data there is no need for a rollback. Do all te temp table processing first then create a transaction to update tables.
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Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.
DTS can be used in a similar way.
Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy.
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