We have a situation where two web applications are working on the same database.

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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T21:17:31+00:00 2026-05-26T21:17:31+00:00

We have a situation where two web applications are working on the same database.

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We have a situation where two web applications are working on the same database. They are both using TransactionScope (in c#) to encapsulate an importing routine.

We are getting a deadlock from two statements inside each of the transactionscopes. The first one is:

DELETE FROM Period WHERE CompanyId = 72

and the second is:

insert bulk Amount ([AccountId] Int, [PeriodId] Int, [Value] Decimal(18,2)) with (CHECK_CONSTRAINTS)

It’s the first statement that is getting killed. Can anyone suggest how to get around this deadlock?

A few other points of interest:

The transaction scopes are IsolationLevel.ReadCommitted.
The database is ReadCommitted.
I’ve tried it with READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT but it didn’t make a difference.
You can see from the second statement that we are using sqlbulkcopy during the transaction.
Most of the time these applications will be read-heavy, however every now and then they will get intense bursts of writing as they import new data. I am hoping ReadCommitted is the right Isolation level.
I don’t understand why an insert into the amount table requires an exclusive lock on the period clustered index/table. Surely it is just reading the index.

The database structure is:

Company

Id

Period

Id,CompanyId

Account

Id

Amount

PeriodId,AccountId,Value

There is a CASCADE DELETE in place between Company and Period, Period and Amount, Company and Account.

Deadlock XML

<deadlock-list>
 <deadlock victim="process7373048">
  <process-list>
   <process id="process7373048" taskpriority="0" logused="53608" waitresource="KEY: 5:72057594040811520 (55caf8cfebcf)" waittime="262" ownerId="21707350" transactionname="user_transaction" lasttranstarted="2011-11-11T14:26:47.660" XDES="0x72af950" lockMode="U" schedulerid="1" kpid="1212" status="suspended" spid="57" sbid="2" ecid="0" priority="0" trancount="2" lastbatchstarted="2011-11-11T14:26:49.273" lastbatchcompleted="2011-11-11T14:26:49.273" clientapp=".Net SqlClient Data Provider" hostname="Fathom-1" hostpid="3396" loginname="fathom_WebUser" isolationlevel="read committed (2)" xactid="21707350" currentdb="5" lockTimeout="4294967295" clientoption1="671088672" clientoption2="128056">
    <executionStack>
     <frame procname="adhoc" line="1" sqlhandle="0x02000000bbf5661cad04d2a71e72d51fe7835afad57a3259">
DELETE FROM Period WHERE CompanyId = 105 AND Type = 7 AND DateRangeId IN (
                    SELECT Id 
                    FROM DateRange
                    WHERE Start &gt;= &apos;20110101 00:00:00&apos;)     </frame>
    </executionStack>
    <inputbuf>
DELETE FROM Period WHERE CompanyId = 105 AND Type = 7 AND DateRangeId IN (
                    SELECT Id 
                    FROM DateRange
                    WHERE Start &gt;= &apos;20110101 00:00:00&apos;)    </inputbuf>
   </process>
   <process id="process2c37e508" taskpriority="0" logused="570716" waitresource="KEY: 5:72057594040352768 (a559124170e7)" waittime="1330" ownerId="21707151" transactionname="user_transaction" lasttranstarted="2011-11-11T14:26:46.640" XDES="0x7207950" lockMode="S" schedulerid="1" kpid="3068" status="suspended" spid="58" sbid="2" ecid="0" priority="0" trancount="2" lastbatchstarted="2011-11-11T14:26:48.203" lastbatchcompleted="2011-11-11T14:26:48.203" clientapp=".Net SqlClient Data Provider" hostname="Fathom-1" hostpid="3396" loginname="fathom_WebUser" isolationlevel="read committed (2)" xactid="21707151" currentdb="5" lockTimeout="4294967295" clientoption1="671088672" clientoption2="128056">
    <executionStack>
     <frame procname="adhoc" line="1" sqlhandle="0x020000001672aa048fceb23bce7f8c54178cbbe497dba1a6">
insert bulk Amount ([AccountId] Int, [PeriodId] Int, [Value] Decimal(18,2)) with (CHECK_CONSTRAINTS)     </frame>
    </executionStack>
    <inputbuf>
insert bulk Amount ([AccountId] Int, [PeriodId] Int, [Value] Decimal(18,2)) with (CHECK_CONSTRAINTS)    </inputbuf>
   </process>
  </process-list>
  <resource-list>
   <keylock hobtid="72057594040811520" dbid="5" objectname="fathom.dbo.Period" indexname="PK_Period" id="lock2ab24500" mode="X" associatedObjectId="72057594040811520">
    <owner-list>
     <owner id="process2c37e508" mode="X"/>
    </owner-list>
    <waiter-list>
     <waiter id="process7373048" mode="U" requestType="wait"/>
    </waiter-list>
   </keylock>
   <keylock hobtid="72057594040352768" dbid="5" objectname="fathom.dbo.Account" indexname="PK_Account" id="lock1ce65980" mode="X" associatedObjectId="72057594040352768">
    <owner-list>
     <owner id="process7373048" mode="X"/>
    </owner-list>
    <waiter-list>
     <waiter id="process2c37e508" mode="S" requestType="wait"/>
    </waiter-list>
   </keylock>
  </resource-list>
 </deadlock>
</deadlock-list>

Deadlock Graph

Execution Plan For the bulk in sert (right side)

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Column="Id"/></InnerSideJoinColumns><OuterSideJoinColumns><ColumnReference Database="[fathom]" Schema="[dbo]" Table="[Amount]" Column="PeriodId"/></OuterSideJoinColumns><Residual><ScalarOperator ScalarString="[fathom].[dbo].[Amount].[PeriodId]=[fathom].[dbo].[Period].[Id]"><Compare CompareOp="EQ"><ScalarOperator><Identifier><ColumnReference Database="[fathom]" Schema="[dbo]" Table="[Amount]" Column="PeriodId"/></Identifier></ScalarOperator><ScalarOperator><Identifier><ColumnReference Database="[fathom]" Schema="[dbo]" Table="[Period]" Column="Id"/></Identifier></ScalarOperator></Compare></ScalarOperator></Residual><RelOp NodeId="3" PhysicalOp="Sort" LogicalOp="Sort" EstimateRows="9000" EstimateIO="0.0112613" EstimateCPU="0.465821" AvgRowSize="12" EstimatedTotalSubtreeCost="4.74537" Parallel="0" EstimateRebinds="0" EstimateRewinds="0"><OutputList><ColumnReference Database="[fathom]" Schema="[dbo]" Table="[Amount]" Column="PeriodId"/><ColumnReference 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Column="PeriodId"/></OrderByColumn></OrderBy><RelOp NodeId="7" PhysicalOp="Compute Scalar" LogicalOp="Compute Scalar" EstimateRows="10000" EstimateIO="0" EstimateCPU="0.001" AvgRowSize="24" EstimatedTotalSubtreeCost="3.36533" Parallel="0" EstimateRebinds="0" EstimateRewinds="0"><OutputList><ColumnReference Table="[!BulkInsert]" Column="AccountId"/><ColumnReference Table="[!BulkInsert]" Column="PeriodId"/><ColumnReference Column="Expr1005"/></OutputList><ComputeScalar><DefinedValues><DefinedValue><ColumnReference Column="Expr1005"/><ScalarOperator ScalarString="CONVERT_IMPLICIT(decimal(18,2),[!BulkInsert].[Value],0)"><Convert DataType="decimal" Precision="18" Scale="2" Style="0" Implicit="1"><ScalarOperator><Identifier><ColumnReference Table="[!BulkInsert]" Column="Value"/></Identifier></ScalarOperator></Convert></ScalarOperator></DefinedValue></DefinedValues><RelOp NodeId="8" PhysicalOp="Top" LogicalOp="Top" EstimateRows="10000" EstimateIO="0" EstimateCPU="0.001" AvgRowSize="24" 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TableCardinality="150" Parallel="0" EstimateRebinds="0" EstimateRewinds="0"><OutputList><ColumnReference Database="[fathom]" Schema="[dbo]" Table="[Period]" Column="Id"/></OutputList><IndexScan Ordered="1" ScanDirection="FORWARD" ForcedIndex="1" ForceSeek="0" ForceScan="0" NoExpandHint="0"><DefinedValues><DefinedValue><ColumnReference Database="[fathom]" Schema="[dbo]" Table="[Period]" Column="Id"/></DefinedValue></DefinedValues><Object Database="[fathom]" Schema="[dbo]" Table="[Period]" Index="[PK_Period]" IndexKind="Clustered"/></IndexScan></RelOp></Merge></RelOp><Predicate><ScalarOperator ScalarString="CASE WHEN [Expr1012] IS NULL THEN (0) ELSE CASE WHEN [Expr1013] IS NULL THEN (1) ELSE NULL END END"><IF><Condition><ScalarOperator><Logical Operation="IS NULL"><ScalarOperator><Identifier><ColumnReference Column="Expr1012"/></Identifier></ScalarOperator></Logical></ScalarOperator></Condition><Then><ScalarOperator><Const ConstValue="(0)"/></ScalarOperator></Then><Else><ScalarOperator><IF><Condition><ScalarOperator><Logical Operation="IS NULL"><ScalarOperator><Identifier><ColumnReference Column="Expr1013"/></Identifier></ScalarOperator></Logical></ScalarOperator></Condition><Then><ScalarOperator><Const ConstValue="(1)"/></ScalarOperator></Then><Else><ScalarOperator><Const ConstValue="NULL"/></ScalarOperator></Else></IF></ScalarOperator></Else></IF></ScalarOperator></Predicate></Assert></RelOp></QueryPlan></StmtSimple></Statements></Batch></BatchSequence></ShowPlanXML>

Execution plan for left side (delete)

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-26T21:17:32+00:00

In my opinion, the main cause is the execution plan for the next statement:

DELETE FROM Period WHERE CompanyId = 105 AND Type = 7 AND DateRangeId IN (
                    SELECT Id 
                    FROM DateRange
                    WHERE Start >= '20110101 00:00:00')

The execution plan for this DELETE has at least two problematics SCAN operators (to see the graphical view of the XML execution plans I have used the free version of SQL Sentry Plan Explorer (link)):
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I would create the next indices:

CREATE /*UNIQUE*/ INDEX IN_Result_PeriodId_MetricId
ON dbo.Result (PeriodId, MetricId);

CREATE /*UNIQUE*/ INDEX IN_Amount_PeriodId_AccountId
ON dbo.Amount(PeriodId, AccountId);

--Optional
CREATE /*UNIQUE*/ INDEX IN_PeriodAlert_PeriodId_AlertId
ON dbo.PeriodAlert(PeriodId, AlertId);

If these indices are UNIQUE please uncomment.

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