In the world of SQL Server management, page-level corruption is an issue that can strike fear into the hearts of even the most experienced database administrators. When an 8 KB unit of data storage, ...

All the information in SQL Server database is stored in 8 KB-sized pages. If any page gets corrupted, server fails to read the data in the database and displays different errors. Some common errors ...

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 ...