At 12:11 PM 26/02/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>But anyway, it should work because there *is* a hard commit at
>the end of the update (take a look at the end of the IB_Monitor
>output of my first mail).

But is there a hard commit by the transaction which does the select, before
it re-queries after your DSQL has committed? If it just does a
CommitRetaining and its isolation level isn't tiCommitted, it won't see
commits from the DSQL or any other external transaction...

Helen