laststubborn wrote:
> Is it possible to change this deadlock killing time? for instance lets
> say instead of 5 min change it to 2 min??

read the docs (BOL)

Customizing the Lock Time-out
When Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 cannot grant a lock to a transaction on
a resource because another transaction already owns a conflicting lock
on that resource, the first transaction becomes blocked waiting on that
resource. If this causes a deadlock, SQL Server terminates one of the
participating transactions (with no time-out involved). If there is no
deadlock, the transaction requesting the lock is blocked until the other
transaction releases the lock. By default, there is no mandatory
time-out period, and no way to test if a resource is locked before
locking it, except to attempt to access the data (and potentially get
blocked indefinitely).


robert