Marco van de Voort (marcov@stack.nl) writes:
>> To wit, if a query times out, and there is a transaction in progress,
>> the transaction is not rolled back automatically. It is irrelevant
>> whether the transaction was started prior to the submission of the
>> query batch, or started within the query batch that timed out.
>>
>> The application must handle this by submitting
>>
>> IF @@trancount > 0 ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
>
> I call the rollback of the relevant ADO connection on the exception caused
> by the timeout.

So, did you investiagate if you have any blocking?

Also, I have you examined the SQL Server error log?



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