|  | Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 07/17/07 10:02 
David Greenberg (davidgr@iba.org.il) writes:> I'm in Enterprise Manager and have made a change to a row.
 > When I try to update I get a message that says:
 > Transaction cannot start, Firehose mode"
 >
 > Can anyone explain what this is and what it means ?
 
 It means that you should open a Query Analyzer window and write an UPDATE
 statement.
 
 My guess is that EM has at this point not yet retrieved all rows, and
 since the result set is still open, the connection does not permit a
 new operation to be initiated. Note that this has more implications
 than just not being able to update the row. It also means that SQL
 Server needs to keep the untrieved rows locked.
 
 
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 Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
 
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