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praveengurram
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Posted - 2012-06-06 : 11:21:17
What exactly NOLOCK will do...........

Praveen.G

nigelrivett
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

3385 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-06 : 11:23:19
Won't take or honour locks (in some cases).
It will be able to read a table while another process is holding a transaction on it - it might get incorrect data.

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