> I'm impressed with your persistence in defending this blatantly
> broken behaviour!

You still refuse to acknowledge that when comparing two
different architectures, not all things must necessarily be implemented
the same way.
You got several proposals how to achieve what you want
in Firebird, but you still repeat its broken, its broken, ...
(For me, M$ is broken, if it freezes just because somebody
has not committed his changes yet, and then I have no idea what
you meant by:

> In this case FB would seem to be more blocking that SQL Server,

Ivan