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S-322532

Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 9:03 AM

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Hi,

Is there any relationship between isolation level and indexes ?

How indexes affect the use of isolation level ?

Is there any performance boost-up obtained during data retrieval using where clause when isloation level is implemented on a table with indexes ?

Alien

Can any one explain in detail ? Links and resources would be of great help Hehe

Thanks,

Sree

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Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 9:23 AM

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No relationship.

Isolation levels affect how long locks are kept within a transaction and how isolated changes made by one transaction are from another transaction.

Indexes speed up data retrieval by giving the query processor a fast way to find rows affected by queries.

Gail Shaw
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Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 8:36 PM

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Hi GilaMonster,

Thanks for the reply :)

Can u plz go thro the below paragraphs and offer me your valuable guidance/suggestions.

When i tried to explore isolation levels i found the below stuff.

The following statements are executed to test READCOMMITTED isolation level

CREATE TABLE Consultants (
ConsultantID INT IDENTITY,
ConsultantName VARCHAR(20),
Technology VARCHAR(15),
HireDate DATETIME,
HourlyRate MONEY)

---------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Fill some data
---------------------------------------------------------------------
INSERT INTO Consultants (ConsultantName, Technology, HireDate, HourlyRate)
SELECT 'Jacob', 'SQL Server', '2000-10-03', 120
INSERT INTO Consultants (ConsultantName, Technology, HireDate, HourlyRate)
SELECT 'Smith', 'ASP.NET', '2005-01-01', 140000
INSERT INTO Consultants (ConsultantName, Technology, HireDate, HourlyRate)
SELECT 'Michael', 'C#.NET', '2002-10-30', 80000

I executed the following statements in Query Window 1

BEGIN TRAN
UPDATE c SET
HourlyRate = 250
FROM Consultants c
WHERE ConsultantName = 'Smith'

When execcuted the following statements from Query Window 2

select * from Consultants

the query blocks and does not return. This query blocks with the transaction running on
the other session. Now move back to Query Window 1 and COMMIT the transaction.

COMMIT TRAN

Now switch back again to Query Window 2. You will notice that the query returned the following.
/*
ConsultantID ConsultantName Technology HireDate HourlyRate
------------ -------------------- --------------- ----------------------- ---------------------
1 Jacob SQL Server 2000-10-03 00:00:00.000 120.00
2 Smith ASP.NET 2005-01-01 00:00:00.000 250.00
3 Michael C#.NET 2002-10-30 00:00:00.000 100.00
*/

I then created a clustered index on the ConsultantID column.

ALTER TABLE Consultants
ADD CONSTRAINT PK_Consultants PRIMARY KEY (ConsultantID)

Now move to Query Window 1 and update the record of Smith.

BEGIN TRAN
UPDATE c SET
HourlyRate = 250
FROM Consultants c
WHERE ConsultantName = 'Smith'

Now, Move to Query Window 2 and run the following queries.

SELECT *
FROM Consultants
WHERE ConsultantID = 3

/*
ConsultantID ConsultantName Technology HireDate HourlyRate
------------ -------------------- --------------- ----------------------- ---------------------
3 Michael C#.NET 2002-10-30 00:00:00.000 100.00
*/

Now, the thing i want to know is that "is still something
there to know more about isolation levels in connection with indexes ?"

N.B: the above code and observations were obtained from the following URL
http://www.sqlserverandxml.com/2008/08/sql-server-transaction-isolation-level.html

Thanks and Regards,

Sree

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GilaMonster

Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 12:54 AM

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Without indexes SQL has to do table scans and hence will take table-level locks. With appropriate indexes, SQL can take more granular locks and hence the two connections don't block each other.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008, MVP
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