• opc.three (1/9/2013)


    The nice thing is that no queries need to change, not even the ones with the NOLOCK hint applied, and you'll automatically get transactionally consistent reads.

    Queries with nolock in them run under read uncommitted (for the hinted table anyway), regardless of whether the default is read committed or read committed snapshot. Hints will override the default or requested isolation level.

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