• Post the table design, index definitions and some of the queries that deadlock with each other?

    Have you considered snapshot isolation level?

    A single table design is bad, but it might be slightly fixable.

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