Craig Freedman's SQL Server Blog

SQL Server 2000 supports four different isolation levels: read uncommitted (or nolock), read committed, repeatable read, and serializable. SQL Server 2005 adds two new isolation levels: read committed snapshot and snapshot. These isolation levels determine...

For those of you readers who've been wondering whatever happened to me, I've been rather busy. Among other activities, I've been writing a chapter for Kalen Delaney's upcoming fourth book in the Inside SQL Server 2005 series : Query Tuning and Optimization...