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Which one of the transaction Isolation levels would you use for a transaction that meets this criteria

1. The statements in your transaction should read only committed data.

2.  Other transactions should not be able to modify the data that has been read by your transaction

3. Other transactions can insert new data into the table with values that would fall in the range read by your transaction.

By Sagari Bellamkonda

Answer: REPEATABLE READ

Explanation: REPEATABLE READ isolation level alone meets this criteria.

READ COMMITTED isolation level allows other transactions to modify data that has been read by your transaction. SERIALIZABLE isolation level does not allow to insert new data into the table with values that would fall in the range read by your transaction.

Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173763.aspx

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