Lock Granularity Hints
You can use lock granularity hints to override the lock granularity selected by the Query Optimizer:
ROWLOCK—You can use this option to force the Lock Manager to place a row-level lock on a resource instead of a page-level or a table-level lock. You can use this option in conjunction with the XLOCK
lock type hint to force exclusive row locks.
PAGLOCK—You can use this option to force a page-level lock on a resource instead of a row-level or table-level lock. You can use this option in conjunction with the XLOCK
lock type hint ...
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