Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 03/02/06 00:50

Robert (robert.j.sipe@boeing.com) writes:
> Rather than setting by session I would like to configure the DB as read
> uncommitted.

You can set the database read-only to eliminate locking entirely.

But else you can't do it, and that is probably a good thing. Dirty reads
is nothing you should engage in as a matter of routine. Maybe you should
review indexing in your database instead.


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