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Isolation Levels and Stored Procedures

Erik Darling goes into isolation:

I’ve talked about isolation levels a bit lately because I need you all to understand that no isolation level is perfect, and that most everyone is completely wrong about how they really work.

For a very high percentage of workloads, Read Committed Snapshot isolation is the best choice. Why?

Read on for that answer. I think Erik is right about people misunderstanding how the different isolation levels work, as well as the root cause of not having a great place to try it out. You can build out demos of how different transaction isolation levels will work but some of the nuanced operations can be hard for one person with a couple new query tabs open to emulate.