blocks hangup database when inserting in 1 specific table

Hi,

We use a database with about 40 related tables. Some tables contain as
much as 30.000 records. We use Access97 as an interface to the
database. Now recently we have the problem that when we want to insert
a row in one specific table (alwasy the same) the database makes
blocks.

Details:
- about 10% of the data was inserted using copying from Excel, before
this action there was no problem, though there is no evidence that
this causes the problem.
- inserting rows via the Query Analyzer works fine, via Access causes
trouble.
- the tempdb lofile has grown to 48Mb.

Has anyone ideas about what is going on and what I can do to solve the
problem?

TAV,
Jan WillemsJan Willems (jwillems@.xs4all.nl) writes:
> We use a database with about 40 related tables. Some tables contain as
> much as 30.000 records. We use Access97 as an interface to the
> database. Now recently we have the problem that when we want to insert
> a row in one specific table (alwasy the same) the database makes
> blocks.

"Makes blocks"? You mean that the INSERT operation is blocked, and you
have to cancel the operation to continue?

When the situation occurs, use sp_who from Query Analyzer, and see if
any process has a non-zero value in the Blk column. In such case, the
process listed in Blk, blocks the spid of that row.

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