What do you mean by a deadlock?

- When two processes are waiting to update the rows of a table which are locked by another process, the situation is called a deadlock.
- The reasons for it to happen are:
- lack of proper row lock commands.
- Poor design of front-end application
- It reduces the performance of the server severely.
- These locks get automatically released automatically when a commit/rollback operation is performed or any process is killed externally.

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