Funny name?

  • I didn't check msdn yet (of course I will to know!) but I did find it funny to have an isolationLevel name that way!

    Of course I want this to happen to the data! :w00t:

    This can be found under SSIS SP3, Execute SQL Task, Properties, IsolationLevel

  • I agree this is a funny name. I didn't know that Chaos wa a valid isolation level. I'm not sure I even get it after reading the explanation. It would sound bizarre to try an explain this to a project manager " Well we decided to implement a chaos level of transactional isolation despite this level not seeming supported by SQL according to BOL" I can image the response to this!!

    Francis

  • Per MSDN, it's a valid selection. And, yeah, I don't think I would want to make the business case on ths one.

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  • That is great. I'll see if I can figure out who did make the case for this one.

  • Those Isolation levels are specific to SSIS because SSIS uses Distributed transactions which require a resource manager MSDTC by default. You don't have to use it you could call a stored procedure and use the ANSI SQL transactions which is a Unit of work while the distributed transactions are none atomic so a resource manager is needed to convert the transactions to a unit of work which is atomic.

    Check below for the SSIS isolation levels definitions.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.dts.runtime.dtscontainer.isolationlevel.aspx

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  • I have to say I kind of like it. It sure sounds a lot more like what it really is than the SQL Server name for it (a.k.a NOLOCK). I'd think that darned thing would be a lot less popular if your select read

    SELECT MyColumn from MyTable with (CHAOS).......

    and by the way - I'm thinking they're actually referring to the CHAOS state from mathematics, as it relates to locking, deterministict queuing, etc....

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