I have determined that the problem is more general than I have stated. Simply put: there is an SQL Server request that is not completing and it is blocking any requests to the same table made after it. I see a page level lock. I can see a statement that is blocking/sleeping and then the one that hangs/is blocked by the first. They are both requesting a lcok on the same page (should be okay). The first statement is an insert generated by the EJB3 framework. Why would it be in a state of sleeping/awaiting command? I assume there is some incompatibility between EJB3 subsystem and SQL server or I have something miss-configured. THIS ONE IS status=sleeping command = awaiting command (@P0 int,@P1 nvarchar(4000),@P2 nvarchar(4000),@P3 int,@P4 int)insert into eventfactory (srcEvtCode, factoryClass, parms, resultEvent, userModel) values ( @P0 , @P1 , @P2 , @P3 , @P4 ) SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY() AS ID THIS ONE is waiting on above one to complete: status=suspended command=select ()select eventfacto0_.ik as ik0_, eventfacto0_.srcEvtCode as srcEvtCode0_, eventfacto0_.factoryClass as factoryC2_0_, eventfacto0_.parms as parms0_, eventfacto0_.resultEvent as resultEv6_0_, eventfacto0_.userModel as userModel0_ from eventfactory eventfacto0_ order by eventfacto0_.srcEvtCode asc Makes no sense. There is nothing else happening in the SQL server. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4181976#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...