escalation

基本解释

However, escalation can work for you instead of against you if you know how to do it.
然而，如果你知道如何去做的话，升级可以为你所用而不是对付你。
When the number of locks held by any one application reaches this percentage of the total lock list size, lock escalation occurs for the locks held by that application.
当任何一个应用程序所持有的锁数量达到整个锁列表大小的这个百分比时，对该应用程序所持有的锁进行锁升级。
All referenced rows are locked, not only retrieved rows; the possibility of large numbers of rows being locked means that there is a strong chance of lock escalation to full table locking.
所有被引用行（不仅是被检索行）都将被锁定，由于存在大量数据行被锁定的可能性，因此也存在较大的锁升级为完全的表级锁的可能性。

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