Let's break down when it's ideal to use the NOLOCK hint and when you should never use it. As a consultant, I work on wide swaths of database systems, which means I get to see many, many SQL statements ...

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When we encountered excessive blocking issues with reports, one tempting solution was to use the WITH NOLOCK table hint to get the report running smoothly and avoid blocking behavior completely.