I'm guessing that there can only be 8 databases in a particular transaction. I don't see anything in BOL relating to this. Does the update cross 8 dbs?

What is on the line where the error occurs? Can you post the connection string? (change teh server name, user, and pwd)

wc is a unix utility that will word count. I'd bet you could find something like this for windows and send your field through it and get a result back.

I've seen similar issues with data corruption. Or QA having issues rendering the result set.

Does select count(*) work?

Virtual memory

It should go away once the rollback is complete. Can you kill the like process on the oracle side?

I tend to check the following:

Change to 10% free space for those that aren't heavy transactional ones. More like 30-40 for larger trans loads.

I remove space, shrink down to 10%...

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It's a tough battle keeping up with the site, especially now with ASP.NET since I'm a little out...

I got this yesterday as well, but the post went. I suspect some changes were in process.

I haven't tried this either, but if the SP levels are the same I'd guess it would work. I have had issues restoring an SP3 master to a lower level...

I haven't tried this either, but if the SP levels are the same I'd guess it would work. I have had issues restoring an SP3 master to a lower level...

I haven't tried this either, but if the SP levels are the same I'd guess it would work. I have had issues restoring an SP3 master to a lower level...

I haven't tried this either, but if the SP levels are the same I'd guess it would work. I have had issues restoring an SP3 master to a lower level...

I haven't tried this either, but if the SP levels are the same I'd guess it would work. I have had issues restoring an SP3 master to a lower level...

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Actually that's the most likely reason, but I supposed there could be some issue. I'd run Profiler on the object in question...