If you have a partitioned table with concurrent access to different partitions, you may want to experiment with the LOCK_ESCALATION = AUTO setting in SQL Server 2008. Because this setting enables SQL Server to use a finer grain of lock escalation, it may improve concurrency in your environment.
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/archive/2010/03/04/enabling-partition-level-locking-in-sql-server-2008.aspx
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