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"Maybe READ COMMITTED is good enough or maybe people don’t know how dirty their data actually is…"

Look, a deadlock or slowness may technically be correct, but it can mean a lost sale. In practice, a worse problem than data inconsistency. SERIALIZABLE costs too much. I usually use snapshot, with a does of repeatable read where absolutely necessary.



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