Can isolation level be set in connectionstring?

Hi,

I would like to be able to alter the default isolation level at connection time via the ADO connection string. Can this be done?

Why? I have various reporting applications (Crystal etc.) that queries against MS SQL server using ADO (SQLOLEDB). I would like to be able to alter the isolation level for these queries to readuncommitted. But many of the reporting applications does not have this option and they autogenerate the SQL making it impossible to use the use the WITH(table_hints) clause in the SELECT statement. So if I could set the isolation level in the connection string this could be a workaround.

Any help will be appreciated!

Bertrand

No, not in the connection string.

HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer.

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