Even though the SQL Server Database Engine automatically sets the best possible locking hints on the underlying database objects of the various T-SQL operations that executes, there are cases where we need to manually control locking as a part of the business logic in our T-SQL script. About the NOLOCK Table Hint A popular locking … Read more…
This article, discusses about the NOLOCK Table Hint in SQL Server. About Query Optimizer in SQL Server Each time you write and execute a T-SQL Query in SQL Server, the Database Engine selects the most optimized query plan for executing the query. The SQL Server Database Engine component that undertakes this task is the … Read more…
I was recently asked by a friend, how can we control the level of locking in SQL Server when executing SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT and DELETE statements. The answer to this question is by using locking hints. Locking hints direct SQL Server to the type of locks to be used. Even though the SQL Server Query … Read more…