I agree that industry or sector experience is far less important than technical ability unless you are facing off directly against the user community, which is rarely the case in...

I used to work for Oracle as a Transparent Gateway (TG) specialist, and what you have said is just about all you need to do.

I find it helpful to...

Surely this locking business is a design fault in SQL Server. Why is it taking out an exclusive lock on the object before it needs to ?