I developed some complicated reports for my company lately, and the query can be slow up the 10 seconds. using with nolock or readpast really do the trick. ex: reading only commited rows select * from some table with(readpast) src=http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6185492.html
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