--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Beach" <pbeach@i...>
wrote:

> > Hot backup 1988
> > Programmable 1992
> > Cluster 2001
> > Self-tuning 2004
> >
> > System: SQLServer (Sybase)
> >
> > Introduced 1988
> > Client/Server 1988
> > No table locks 1995?
>
> Hmmm I still believe it will propogate to a table lock
> in the right circumstances.

Definitely it locks entire tables quite often. That is one of the big
problems of MSSQL.

Cheers,
--------
Miroslav Penchev.