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A SQL Server isolation level using MVCC to provide a point-in-time view of the database for the life of the transaction. Not to be confused with RCSI, which provides the same view at a statement-level.

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Is it possible to override a ReadCommittedSnapshot isolation level with ReadCommitted isolat...

READ COMMITTED is your isolation level. Then you can a knob, at the database level, with which you can decide how this isolation level is implemented. If you want the blocking behaviour, then just con …
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Trying to understand an RCSI example-The Potential Dangers of the Read Committed Snapshot Is...

Trying to explain how we end up with -3 in the table: Let's call the transactions A and B. A starts first: Begin tran Reads the value 5, store it in @QtyRemain and verify that we have >= 0 after subtr …
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What happen when a transaction is committed and SNAPSHOT isolation is enabled?

SQL Server will store the "before image" of the values in tempdb. And if you modify the same row several times, then you will have a chain of before-values (a linked list, essentially). The row also h …
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How does the read committed snapshot isolation level relate (link) the row in tempdb to the ...

SQL Server adds this 14 byte overhead as internal information. You need to use special command to see the overhead, as noted by MBuschi. Note that the overhead is not added until you modify a row, aft …
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