It will stay a table lock. SQL escalates to reduce the resources required. It's not going to go and undo that and go back to the high resources used that caused the escalation in the first place.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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