Lock Escalation - What's happening here?

Question

While altering a table (removing a column) in SQL Server 2008, I clicked the Generate Change Script button and I noticed that the change script it generated drops the column

Answer 1

You can check if you need to include the LOCK_ESCALATION statement in your script by comparing this value before and after running the main part of your script:

SELECT lock_escalation_desc FROM sys.tables WHERE name='yourtablename'

In my case, altering table to drop or add a constraint doesn't seem to modify this value.