Question : does BEGIN TRAN put a lock?

When I have a transaction and yet to give commit/rollback, i need some feedback before i can do that.

but another query needs to touch that table, but it is endlessly running. is there a lock when BEGIN Tran happens?

thanks

Answer : does BEGIN TRAN put a lock?

Can you try this:

strFileName=Session.Property("SOURCEDIR") & "MyExe.exe"
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run strFileName, 1, True

Regards,

Rob.