The differences are more apparent in Client/Server than in File Server
databases. Returning 1 row of data uses less network resources.
Perhaps you meant to ask about row-level locking as opposed to page locking.
In that case Page locking is faster than row-level locking and should be
used when there are no record locking problems. When there are record
locking conflicts use row-level locking or for larger updates lock all
records in the table.
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