At 03:02 PM 30/12/2007, you wrote:

>--- Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
>
>>
>> At this point, transaction #2 is active and is interested in the completed
>> (committed or rolled-back) transaction #1.
>
>why is it still active while it has been (hard-)committed?

Silly question, I hope - but are you watching the database from another application (such as isql or some other tool)?

./heLen