Database protection goes far beyond backups; ensuring the quality and consistency of those backups is equally important. Here are the maintenance tasks that will make sure your databases stay in top ...

SQL Server database corruption is troublesome for DBAs, particularly if the situation arrives suddenly and there is no backup. This situation can lead to prolonged downtime and permanent data loss in ...

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 ...