Question : BEGIN TRAN and testing

when i had a statement in a trasaction, and wanted to test it. so i went to the web app, but it would not respond because of the lock. if i did rollback, the webpages respond fine right away. Unless the underlying query is made to run with NOLOCK, there is no other way to test the effects of the statements in the transaction, before committing, is there?

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Answer : BEGIN TRAN and testing

>> my question is if you use m32 flag, is there a limitation of the ram that you can use

Since the address space becomes 32 bit the maximum memory a 32 bit process can possible address is 4GB. That said, in reality the amount of user memory is a lot less (usually 1 or 2 GB) since the rest is reserve in the processes memory map for various other reasons (such as for use my the kernel to map devices - this is probably a poor example).