I am facing some re-occurring deadlocks, one of which is a Keylock and contains a SELECT query with XLOCK hint that becomes the deadlock victim. The other statement is an INSERT into one of the tables that is part of the view of the first query. 

View:

```
create view dbo.viewE
 as
    select * from dbo.E  
    where myValue > 13000 

```

Select Query:

```
select * from dbo.viewE with (XLOCK) where A > GETUTCDATE() 

```

INSERT Statement:

```
INSERT INTO [dbo].[E] (myValue,A) VALUES (10,GetDate())

```

The underlying table dbo.E is holding about 3 million rows in about 20 columns, some of them are ntext.

Taking the queries out and simulating it manually with two transactions, the behaviour is re-producable. The behaviour changes if XLOCK is removed from the select.

Deadlock Graph:

```
<deadlock-list>
 <deadlock victim="process222222221">
  <process-list>
   <process id="process222222221" taskpriority="0" logused="0" waitresource="KEY: 5:72057604035644444 (ccdf51accc0c)" waittime="2522" ownerId="27202256401" transactionname="SELECT" lasttranstarted="2015-09-14T16:32:36.160" XDES="0x2f1ec5ca0" lockMode="RangeX-X" schedulerid="15" kpid="12936" status="suspended" spid="359" sbid="0" ecid="0" priority="0" trancount="0" lastbatchstarted="2015-09-14T16:32:36.160" lastbatchcompleted="2015-09-14T16:32:36.160" clientapp="x" hostname="x" hostpid="14536" loginname="x" isolationlevel="serializable (4)" xactid="27202256401" currentdb="5" lockTimeout="4294967295" clientoption1="671088672" clientoption2="128056">
    <executionStack>
     <frame procname="adhoc" line="1" stmtstart="48" sqlhandle="0x02000000611e4523142b2318c47c87313a9b2ba587ff3130">
        SELECT * FROM viewE WITH (XLOCK) WHERE A &lt; GetUtcDate()      </frame>
     <frame procname="unknown" line="1" sqlhandle="0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000">
unknown     </frame>
    </executionStack>
    <inputbuf>
(@UICulture nvarchar(5))SELECT * FROM viewE WITH (XLOCK) WHERE A &lt; GetUtcDate()    </inputbuf>
   </process>
   <process id="process6022222" taskpriority="0" logused="161152" waitresource="KEY: 5:72057604035644444 (cd874c2ba438)" waittime="1370" ownerId="27202248438" transactionguid="0x8de5ccd6eeef67469c6234af59e44ca5" transactionname="DTCXact" lasttranstarted="2015-09-14T16:32:34.767" XDES="0x4aa0bf950" lockMode="RangeI-N" schedulerid="14" kpid="6636" status="suspended" spid="329" sbid="0" ecid="0" priority="0" trancount="2" lastbatchstarted="2015-09-14T16:32:37.300" lastbatchcompleted="2015-09-14T16:32:37.300" clientapp="x" hostname="x" hostpid="14536" loginname="x" isolationlevel="read uncommitted (1)" xactid="27202248438" currentdb="5" lockTimeout="4294967295" clientoption1="671088672" clientoption2="128056">
    <executionStack>
     <frame procname="adhoc" line="1" stmtstart="936" sqlhandle="0x020000004853462f09790a4ddedc0d574c2afa539aef1c0e">
     INSERT INTO [E] ([a], [b], [c],...) VALUES (@aDate, @bDate, @c, ...)
     </frame>
     <frame procname="unknown" line="1" sqlhandle="0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000">
unknown     </frame>
    </executionStack>
    <inputbuf>INSERT INTO [E] ([a], [b], [c],...) VALUES (@aDate, @bDate, @c, ...)
    </inputbuf>
   </process>
  </process-list>
  <resource-list>
   <keylock hobtid="72057604035644444" dbid="5" objectname="db.dbo.E" indexname="IX_index1" id="lock258b6dc80" mode="X" associatedObjectId="72057604035644444">
    <owner-list>
     <owner id="process6022222" mode="X"/>
    </owner-list>
    <waiter-list>
     <waiter id="process222222221" mode="RangeX-X" requestType="wait"/>
    </waiter-list>
   </keylock>
   <keylock hobtid="72057604035644444" dbid="5" objectname="db.dbo.E" indexname="IX_index1" id="lock7b145c400" mode="RangeX-X" associatedObjectId="72057604035644444">
    <owner-list>
     <owner id="process222222221" mode="RangeX-X"/>
    </owner-list>
    <waiter-list>
     <waiter id="process6022222" mode="RangeI-N" requestType="wait"/>
    </waiter-list>
   </keylock>
  </resource-list>
 </deadlock>
</deadlock-list>

```

As far I understand this, I am looking at a KEYLOCK deadlock basically caused by an uncovered index query that uses a nonclustered and a clustered index in order to collect the required values, right? 

My questions: 

1. I can't create a covering index because of the required NTEXT columns involved. Will drastically reducing the number of rows help here?
2. Is there any good reason I just don't know the SELECT is executed with the XLOCK? Would the deadlock also happen without XLOCK?