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Locks Held During Creation of a Referential Constraint

When you create a referential constraint, the database server places an exclusive lock on the referenced table. The lock is released after you finish with the ALTER TABLE statement or at the end of a transaction (if you are altering the table in a database that uses transaction logging).

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