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title: "What are the disadvantages of PAGE level lock?"  
description: "What are the disadvantages of PAGE level lock?"  
author: "Chris Anderson"  
published: 2011-09-20  
updated: 2020-09-23  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1283/what-are-the-disadvantages-of-page-level-lock  
category: "db2"  
tags: ["db2"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are the disadvantages of PAGE level lock?

High resource utilization if large updates are to be done.

## Answers

### Answer by Chris Anderson

High resource utilization if large updates are to be done.


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