In the world of SQL Server, every developer and DBA is engaged in a constant balancing act. On one side, we have the demand for high concurrency—allowing multiple users and processes to access and ...

Many developers underestimate the impact that transaction isolation levels have on their applications. While SQL Server’s default isolation level, Read Committed, works well for many scenarios, ...

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Let's break down when it's ideal to use the NOLOCK hint and when you should never use it. As a consultant, I work on wide swaths of database systems, which means I get to see many, many SQL statements ...

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The locking of records is necessary to ensure transactions are processed accurately and with a high level of concurrency. Unfortunately the more records are locked the higher is the chance other ...