When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

I had the pleasure to spend some time with my old friend at Microsoft, Mark Souza, while speaking at the SQL Saturday event in Dublin, Ireland. Now keep in mind that Mark and I have known each other ...

Title question.<BR>I can't think of any reason why it would lock anything, seems like it's just deallocating space that has been marked as reusuable/not in use anyway, but just in case...do any locks ...