Hi, Do anyone can confirm me, i am little bit confused whether using alias name will improve the performances Or not? In my point of view, it won't do. Because i observed one thing by the CPU time & elapsed time is less, when i did not use alias name in my query. If it's not Helping to improve...

Under MSSQL 2000 I get a deadlock on a transaction. This victim transaction contains one single SELECT statement joining 2 tables using the READPAST hint. I thought this hint will cause the transaction not be blocked on locks. How can it happen that the transaction is part of a deadlock? The query looks...

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