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nyck

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Mar 10, 2004
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Hello,

i have a database which has some tables that are locked, how does one unlock these?

cheers

nick
 
In general, the connection that is updating these tables has to finish their transaction. If the tables have been locked for a long time (over 10 minutes, say) then try sp_transactions to see if someone issued a BEGIN TRANSACTION, then walked away for lunch or some fool thing.
 
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