Is it safe to use MS SQL’s WITH (NOLOCK) option for select statements and insert statements if you never modify a row, but only insert or delete rows?
I..e you never do an UPDATE to any of the rows.
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Is it safe to use MS SQL’s WITH (NOLOCK) option for select statements and insert statements if you never modify a row, but only insert or delete rows?
I..e you never do an UPDATE to any of the rows.
If you’re asking whether or not you’ll get data that may no longer be accurate, then it depends on your queries. For example, if you do something like:
at the same time that a row is being inserted with a date on or after 2008-01-01 then you may not get that new row. This can also affect queries which generate aggregates.
If you are just mimicking updates through a delete/insert then you also may get an ‘old’ version of the data.