Question

I’m using the sys.dm_tran_locks view to check what areas of my database have locks when we are having performance problems.

Using this view….

• If the resource_type is database I can use the DB_NAME function to find out what database has the lock.

• If its an object I can normally join to sys.tables to check what table it is.

However if the resource_type is Page or Key is there any way to trace this back to its parent table so I can get a good idea of which tables are locking?

Answer 1

This is what the resource_associated_entity_id column is for (Example query).

SELECT dm_tran_locks.request_session_id,
       dm_tran_locks.resource_database_id,
       DB_NAME(dm_tran_locks.resource_database_id) AS dbname,
       CASE
           WHEN resource_type = 'OBJECT'
               THEN OBJECT_NAME(dm_tran_locks.resource_associated_entity_id)
           ELSE OBJECT_NAME(partitions.OBJECT_ID)
       END AS ObjectName,
       partitions.index_id,
       indexes.name AS index_name,
       dm_tran_locks.resource_type,
       dm_tran_locks.resource_description,
       dm_tran_locks.resource_associated_entity_id,
       dm_tran_locks.request_mode,
       dm_tran_locks.request_status
FROM sys.dm_tran_locks
LEFT JOIN sys.partitions ON partitions.hobt_id = dm_tran_locks.resource_associated_entity_id
LEFT JOIN sys.indexes ON indexes.OBJECT_ID = partitions.OBJECT_ID AND indexes.index_id = partitions.index_id
WHERE resource_associated_entity_id > 0
  AND resource_database_id = DB_ID()
ORDER BY request_session_id, resource_associated_entity_id