>>I ran across this post this morning:
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>>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dbrowne/archive/2010/06/03/using-new-transactionscope-considered-harmful.aspx
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>Thanks Paul ... I knew about the default Serializable and how to easily get around that (see my blog post from more than a year ago, http://geek-goddess-bonnie.blogspot.com/2010/12/transactionscope-and-sqlserver.html), but I did NOT know about the default Transaction Timeout of 1 minute.
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>I think that's probably ok in our scenario (a 1 minute timeout), but now that I know about it, I can review our processes and evaluate whether or not that's ok. Thanks!
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>~~Bonnie

Take a look also at this thread http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/transactsql/thread/bf1bca4d-750c-45a8-a149-95c39f6ec2f3 I think it may be helpful.