Workshop

The Workshop provides quiz questions to help you solidify your understanding of the material covered and exercises to provide you with experience in using what you've learned. Try to answer the quiz and exercise questions before checking the answers in Appendix A, "Answers to Quizzes and Exercises," and make sure that you understand the answers before continuing to the next lesson.

Quiz

1:What is the difference between a shared and an exclusive lock?
2:What statements (select, insert, update, delete) will acquire a shared lock?
3:What is an intent lock, and what exactly gets locked?
4:Does an exclusive intent lock block other users from reading or writing?

Exercises

1:Write a query to retrieve a list of the five worst-selling products. You'll ...

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