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Read-only transaction anomaly

I've learned about this anomaly from these papers: https://www.cs.umb.edu/~poneil/ROAnom.pdf (original) https://johann.schleier-smith.com/blog/2016/01/06/analyzing-a-read-only-transaction-anomaly-...
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Is it best practice to use surrogate keys when creating foreign key constraints in SQL Server?

I'm trying my best not to ask a leading question, but after a lot of searching I'm unable to find a similar answer or recommendation. First, take a look at this question I asked on Stack Overflow ...
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Force everyone to use snapshot isolation

I have a scenario in which I don't want any readers to block writers. I don't want users using table hints or isolation levels to issue shared locks, which might block writers. Is there a way for ...
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