When it comes to updating all rows in a table, does the method of locking matter for performance?
- by Evan Carroll
Question is a follow up to this.
The SQL in question was
UPDATE stats SET visits = (visits+1)
And the question is, for the purpose of performance, does it matter if you lock all rows in stats in comparison to locking the table stats? Or, if the database uses a page-lock rather than a table/row lock?