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Thanks guarddata. I didn't realise that syslocks is no longer supported in SQL2K. I changed the statement to use syslockinfo and it seems to work every time.

We need the GO statements in between because a Create Procedure statement must be the first statement in a command batch

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Connection Pooling is the problem.

Append OLE DB Services = -2 to the end of your ado connection string