What's The Default Lock Granularity In Sql Server?

I've thoroughly read MSDN about table hints and I don't seem to find the locking granularity default. Suppose I have the following query: SELECT TOP (1) * FROM MyTable WITH (UPDLOC

Solution 1:

There is no 'default'. The granularity (row, page, (partition | object)) is computed dynamically based on allowed options for the object (allow_page_locks/allow_row_locks), information about the operation intent (probe, scan, insert), the estimated size of the rowset and a number of other factors (isolation level, is filegroup read only etc). In most cases you will get row-level granularity for singleton operations and page-level granularity for scans. The query you posted is probably going to go with page-level granularity because is a scan.