From: Erland Sommarskog on
RG (RG(a)discussions.microsoft.com) writes:
> It appears that as the server C problem is due to locking as the db in
> production and active transacitons are coming in. To test, I created the
> copy of prod db on the same server (C). This worked.

Interesting. One would think you would see blocking when working
against the production database. I do recognize the sympton: the
process from the linked server is there, but it gets nowhere. This
was more common some years back, when you had a mix of Win2000 and
Win2003.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel(a)sommarskog.se

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