NOLOCK Option ?

May 12, 2008

Hi,

I was sreading about NOLOCK that it could prevent deadlocks but could return data which is not committed yet.
1) Should we use NOLOCK with select statements
2) If the transaction isolation level is set appropriately (e.g. Serializable)in the component (for e.g COM+ component) but NOLOCK is specified in the select then would it return uncommitted data. I mean if the transaction is controlled at hihger level then what will be the Pros and Cons of using NOLOCK.

Thanks

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Select With (nolock) OR TransactionScope With Option Read Uncommitted Data

May 29, 2007

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I read the thing from http://www.sql-server-performance.com/ and I am sure that our web and SQL servers are about 100x over sized for the application. While are ASP.Net (VB) app may demonstrate some hesitation from time to time I am more inclined to blame poor VB.Net coding techniques before slow SQL. The point being the NOLOCK is being added to SELECTS that are not part of a transaction and were using the SQL data adapter to return datasets or single column values.

Also I am not even sure it’s being used correctly. The OLM has the example:
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However I am seeing it formatted like this:
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I am by no mean an expert, I follow what I read in books or from examples from others. And I have never read in a book go crazy with NOLOCK because it’s the bomb!

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Hi guys,

I am a new user for DB2.

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col2
col3
col4

Now i want to issue a query like this.

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Anyone can help me???

i tried to find out.

I did the same thing with SQL server 2000.
I am not facing any problem there.

Thanks & Regards,
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http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=67294

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Hey guys,

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I've looked in the BOL and searched on the net but can't find anything on this particular topic.

Lex

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Hi,

I have never used NOLOCK, or ROWLOCK, or anything of that sort. It's something I thought was over my head when I first encountered it and as I am gaining a better grip on SQL I have decided I want to try and tackle it. Also, because I think its causing me some problems :)

I recently implemented a new query into my application.

The query below gets the COUNT(*) of certain tables. Some of these tables are tall (5 million plus rows)

The counts returned are not absolutely critical information, and we are not joining or doing any other transactions based on this data. I believe running these counts on these pretty active tables (selects,inserts) are possibly causing slowdowns ?

Would using NOLOCK be an appropriate situation for something like this ? I am looking for a performance increase hopefully, and hoping there isnt much of a downside? I'm also not sure what type of reliability to expect from NOLOCK.

Any help much appreciated !!

Thanks once again
mike123

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