Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/17/34 11:33

loosecannon_1@yahoo.com (loosecannon_1@yahoo.com) writes:
> All my queries are being blocked while the tables are being replicated
> and it is causing some 2 minute blocking. Is there a way for the
> Replication to allow dirty reads because I really don't care about
> that, I would rather have dirty reads than 2 minute waits.

I will have to admit that I am not very experienced with replication, but
this sounds very strange to me. Replication is done from the transaction
log, so there is no blocking reads.

Or are we talking merge replication? That I know even less about.

microsoft.public.sqlserver.replication may be a better place to ask.

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