How do you lock tables in SQL Server 2005, and should I even do it?

Question

This one will take some explaining. What I\'ve done is create a specific custom message queue in SQL Server 2005. I have a table with messages that contain timestamps for both a

Answer 1

Read more about SQL Server Select Locking here and here. SQL Server has the ability to invoke a table lock on a select. Nothing will happen to the table during the transaction. When the transaction completes, any inserts or updates will then resolve themselves.