Addendum to this,

The aforementioned batch task is being called from within another batch task's Group Prefix logic unit, and in which Transaction mode is Physical, Begin at a Group level. I subsequently have changed the above batch task to Physical-None, still no luck.

I'm thinking about making the above batch task a parallel task, so it would be called from outside the active transaction, but clearly I'm just throwing shit against the wall now to see if anything sticks.

Help?

Steve Blank