nolock option

  • How does a nolock option in a query internally work in SQL Server???

  • Same as the read uncommitted isolation level. Request no shared locks for the hinted tables thus allowing dirty reads. Additionally it allows allocation order scans (reads in physical order instead of index order) which cause nolock's other data anomalies, the missing rows and duplicate rows.

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