I'm off work ill at the moment, but I'll post the info as soon as I get into the office again.

I'd like to know this too, as I found this thread when searching for a solution to the exact same problem.

Just in case anyone still cares about this problem, it turned out to be a conflict with the SCSI cards and the scanners (believe it or not). Once a certain...

I am beginning to think the problem may be tied to the database growth increments though. I'm going to experiment with the increment sizes and see if I can make...

Peter,

Thanks for those suggestions. There isn't a clustered index on the GUID, though there is a secondary index on the table that is clustered. The Wall seems to have been...

Nothing so fancy as a SAN I'm afraid.

The hardware is a dual Xenon processor server with 2 2.4Ghz processors, 4GB of RAM, a pair of internal IDE 80GB disks configured as...

Some further info...

After much investigation I'm now beginning to think it's nothing to do with the locking strategy.

It seems to be after about 2 hours of having data pumped into...

Don't worry about insulting me... I find that no matter how old she gets Granny still needs the occassional egg sucking lesson

I've checked...

Forgot to mention...

in about 10 days the main scanning project is due to begin, scanning a little over 2 million documents from the national...

To answer each in turn:

Nothing untoward in the error logs... everything looks OK

Unfortunately we need to stick with BLOBs, as they are later going to be mass OCR treated, then...