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Using MS SQL Server, is there a way to query all of the tables in a database for a specific column name?

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Let's break down when it's ideal to use the NOLOCK hint and when you should never use it. As a consultant, I work on wide swaths of database systems, which means I get to see many, many SQL statements ...