ID: Q171799
The information in this article applies to:
An RDO query cannot complete due to an uncommitted lock from a competing transaction. This may cause the query to hang rather than time out after the connection or query's QueryTimeout value.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2.
For more information on the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
   ARTICLE-ID: Q170365
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why
   ARTICLE-ID: Q171554
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97
               Service Pack 2
Keywords          : kbVBp500 kbVS97sp2fix kbvbp500sp2fix 
Version           : 5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfixLast Reviewed: June 7, 1999