• If you are not doing any data modifications, then you will not be experiencing blocking and therefore there's little point in changing or fiddling with the isolation level.

    Identify the badly performing code, tune it.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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