Question

i got this error

timeout value expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion
of the operation or the server is not responding

i have a process, which do inserts and update at night, another process
which does query at nights too, (etl or dts) at sql server 2005 so, now we need to do a query to this table, and this doesn’t work, i want to run my process again, and this never finish, and noneone can do a query to this table, (another tables could do) users commented me, yesterday they could do, but today, they coulden’t is it posible, my process is execute at night has never finished, and it let a begin transaccion open?
how can i to be sure of this? and close it from ssms ?

this is not a problem of permissions we could do queries and inserts/updates yesterday.

it happens only with one table.

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT TOP 1 * FROM Table (nolock)

Does that return results? If so, sounds like a locking issue..