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Escalation of Locks - What does it mean?

KirkPatrickOct 6 2009 — edited Dec 23 2010
I was going through a comparison of Oracle and DB2. It says, in Oracle, the Locks don't escalate and in DB2 the locks escalate. What does escalation of a lock mean?
This post has been answered by Billy Verreynne on Oct 6 2009
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