>>What you're using - DataReader or DataSet? How exactly do you access data in your application?
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>It looks like OleDb is not the issue. Something else has locked the files. The network engineer will try to reboot the server later tonight in order to release tables.
What is the network they are using? We had some weird locking problems long time ago with Novell.
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