Comments on: (nolock) http://crankydba.com/2009/09/24/nolock/ Mike Hillwig thinks you're entitled to his opinion. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:02:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Swart http://crankydba.com/2009/09/24/nolock/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Michael Swart Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:53:30 +0000 http://thecrankydba.com/?p=173#comment-33 I always thought that (NOLOCK) hints in update statements were ignored by the processor. Is that true? I suppose one way to find out for sure would be to trace all locks taken by the statement with and without the hint to see the difference. It's interesting that the official docs say that (NOLOCK) in an update statement is deprecated: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187373.aspx I always thought that (NOLOCK) hints in update statements were ignored by the processor. Is that true? I suppose one way to find out for sure would be to trace all locks taken by the statement with and without the hint to see the difference.

It’s interesting that the official docs say that (NOLOCK) in an update statement is deprecated: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187373.aspx

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