• Right before the BEGIN TRANSACTION, put SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE READ, since you are writing the begin tran, you can write that too.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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