• It's not unusual (in SP4 of SQL 2000) to see self-blocking. It's usually nothing to worry about. It may indicate parallelism or just that part of the query execution is waiting for another part to complete.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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