Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 03/08/06 00:05

pb648174 (google@webpaul.net) writes:
> SQL 2005 - Row level versioning works very nice for this purpose.

Yes, snapshot isolation can be a very good way to resolve locking issues.
And note that there is a database switch: ALTER DATABASE db SET
READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT ON. This changes the default isolation level of
READ COMMITTED to use the snapshot instead.

However, I got the feeling that Robert's problem rather was long-running
queries, and not blocking.


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