First, teh ROWLOCK and XLOCK hints cannot be used together.
The multiple hints should be used as infollowing example

... FROM aTable WITH (TABLOCK, HOLDLOCK) ...

See BOL for details.


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>I am trying to issue the following statement with to lock a record with inner join but I have an error:-
>
>SELECT amaster.acctno,bmaster.balance,bmaster.YEAR
>FROM amaster [ROWLOCK] with (Xlock)
> INNER JOIN bmaster
> ON amaster.acctno = bmaster.acctno
>WHERE (bmaster.YEAR = 2007)
>ORDER BY amaster.acctno
>
>The error:
>Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
>The multi-part identifier "amaster.acctno" could not be bound.
>
>Thanks