diff --git a/src/Hangfire.SqlServer/SqlServerJobQueue.cs b/src/Hangfire.SqlServer/SqlServerJobQueue.cs
index 7b261652b..c6608887f 100644
--- a/src/Hangfire.SqlServer/SqlServerJobQueue.cs
+++ b/src/Hangfire.SqlServer/SqlServerJobQueue.cs
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ private SqlServerTimeoutJob DequeueUsingSlidingInvisibilityTimeout(string[] queu
             if (queues.Length == 0) throw new ArgumentException("Queue array must be non-empty.", nameof(queues));
 
             var lockResource = $"{_storage.SchemaName}_FetchLockLock_{String.Join("_", queues.OrderBy(x => x))}";
-            var isBlocking = false;
+            var isBlocking = _options.NonBlockingFetchSql;
 
             var pollingDelayMs = Math.Min(
                 Math.Max((int)_options.QueuePollInterval.TotalMilliseconds, MinPollingDelayMs),
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ private SqlServerTimeoutJob DequeueUsingSlidingInvisibilityTimeout(string[] queu
                         throw new InvalidOperationException($"A call to sp_getapplock returned unexpected result '{lockResult.Value}' while fetching a job. Please report this problem to Hangfire developers and don't use sub-second values for the QueuePollInterval option.");
                     }
 
-                    if (_options.QueuePollInterval < LongPollingThreshold)
+                    if (_options.QueuePollInterval < LongPollingThreshold  && !_options.NonBlockingFetchSql)
                     {
                         isBlocking = true;
                     }
diff --git a/src/Hangfire.SqlServer/SqlServerStorageOptions.cs b/src/Hangfire.SqlServer/SqlServerStorageOptions.cs
index c3229feba..cce5ebf3f 100644
--- a/src/Hangfire.SqlServer/SqlServerStorageOptions.cs
+++ b/src/Hangfire.SqlServer/SqlServerStorageOptions.cs
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ public SqlServerStorageOptions()
             TransactionTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1);
             DisableGlobalLocks = false;
             UsePageLocksOnDequeue = false;
+            NonBlockingFetchSql = true;
         }
 
         [Obsolete("TransactionIsolationLevel option is deprecated, please set UseRecommendedIsolationLevel instead. Will be removed in 2.0.0.")]
@@ -122,5 +123,7 @@ public string SchemaName
         public bool UsePageLocksOnDequeue { get; set; }
         public bool UseRecommendedIsolationLevel { get; set; }
         public bool EnableHeavyMigrations { get; set; }
+
+        public bool NonBlockingFetchSql { get; set; }
     }
 }