Not a complaint! An observation and I am grateful for the help I get from you guys. I will take a look at it this week and get back to you. The project I have in mind is one where we (I) have to manually download a set of data every week and import it into our db, replacing the current data and was told in a SQL class that I should "just use SSIS," accompanied by a bunch of shaking heads. Will let you know how it goes. Thanks!