A SQL transaction is, by design, ACID. In particular, it is the "I" that is hurting you here - this is designed to prevent other connections seeing the inconsistent intermediate state.
Try to execute your reads within a transaction as well and use the isolation level READ UNCOMMITTED. This will prevent the read from being locked, but might produce invalid results.
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