|  | Posted by Oscar Santiesteban on 07/24/07 00:55 
Erland,
 Doesn't FIREHOSE mode mean that EM has read the records in a "forward only
 cursor" and has no means of updating?  Hence the name "firehouse" which is a
 rapid stream of data only going 1 way.
 
 Oscar
 
 "Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote in message
 news:Xns99707AD4B7BCCYazorman@127.0.0.1...
 > 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.
 >
 >
 > --
 > Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
 >
 > Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
 > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
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 > http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx
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