Ahh - hadn't thought of that. The DB is over 20G. Is this is addition to not having the primary key or as well as?

Should SQL Server not be able...

Hi

Thanks for that.

Do you know why the other unreleated SP's were timing out when this one started to?

This was my next plan of action but I don't understand why this would help the inserts - would a clustered index not normally slow an insert down (while improving...