applock-mode-transact-sql.md

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APPLOCK_MODE (Transact-SQL)

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This function returns the lock mode held by the lock owner on a particular application resource. As an application lock function, APPLOCK_MODE operates on the current database. The database is the scope of the application locks.

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Syntax

APPLOCK_MODE( 'database_principal' , 'resource_name' , 'lock_owner' ) 

Arguments

'database_principal'
The user, role, or application role that can be granted permissions to objects in the database. To successfully call the function, the function caller must be a member of database_principal, dbo, or the db_owner fixed database role.

'resource_name'
A lock resource name specified by the client application. The application must ensure a unique resource name. The specified name is hashed internally into a value that the [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] lock manager can internally store. resource_nameis nvarchar(255), with no default. resource_name is binary compared, and is case-sensitive regardless of the collation settings of the current database.

'lock_owner'
The owner of the lock, which is the lock_owner value when the lock was requested. lock_owner is nvarchar(32), and the value can be either Transaction (the default) or Session.

Return types

nvarchar(32)

Return value

Returns the lock mode held by the lock owner on a particular application resource. Lock mode can have any one of these values:

:::row::: :::column span=""::: NoLock
Update
*SharedIntentExclusive :::column-end::: :::column span=""::: IntentShared
IntentExclusive
*UpdateIntentExclusive

:::column-end::: :::column span=""::: Shared
Exclusive :::column-end::: :::row-end:::

*This lock mode is a combination of other lock modes and sp_getapplock cannot explicitly acquire it.

Function properties

Nondeterministic

Nonindexable

Nonparallelizable

Examples

Two users (User A and User B), with separate sessions, run the following sequence of [!INCLUDEtsql] statements.

User A runs:

USE AdventureWorks2022; GO BEGIN TRAN; DECLARE @result INT; EXEC @result=sp_getapplock @DbPrincipal='public', @Resource='Form1', @LockMode='Shared', @LockOwner='Transaction'; SELECT APPLOCK_MODE('public', 'Form1', 'Transaction'); GO 

User B then runs:

Use AdventureWorks2022; GO BEGIN TRAN; SELECT APPLOCK_MODE('public', 'Form1', 'Transaction'); --Result set: NoLock SELECT APPLOCK_TEST('public', 'Form1', 'Shared', 'Transaction'); --Result set: 1 (Lock is grantable.) SELECT APPLOCK_TEST('public', 'Form1', 'Exclusive', 'Transaction'); --Result set: 0 (Lock is not grantable.)  GO 

User A then runs:

EXEC sp_releaseapplock @Resource='Form1', @DbPrincipal='public'; GO 

User B then runs:

SELECT APPLOCK_TEST('public', 'Form1', 'Exclusive', 'Transaction'); --Result set: '1' (The lock is grantable.)  GO 

User A and User B then run:

COMMIT TRAN; GO 

See also

APPLOCK_TEST (Transact-SQL)
sp_getapplock (Transact-SQL)
sp_releaseapplock (Transact-SQL)