Using Application Locks
SQL Server allows you to extend the resources that can be locked beyond the ones automatically provided. You can define your own custom locking resources and let the Lock Manager control the access to those resources as it would for any resource in a database. This essentially allows you to choose to lock anything you want. These user-defined lock resources are called application locks. To define an application lock, you use the sp_getapplock stored procedure and specify a name for the resource you are locking, a mode, an optional lock owner, and an optional lock timeout interval. The syntax for sp_getapplock is as follows:
sp_getapplock [ @Resource = ] 'resource_name', [ @LockMode = ] ...
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