http://msmvps.com/blogs/luisabreu/archive/2008/01/07/are-you-trying-to-reduce-your-lock-contention.aspxMichael Suess has a great blog on parallel programming and concurrency. Even though this post has already got some months, I still recommend it to everyone that wants to improve their knowledge on lock contention reduction.enCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)