I am glad to see you used SQL in such a useful way. I use DTS packages to pull information from each of our syslog servers into a database each night. So you are certainly on the right track...and I agree that you have made great progress in a short amount of time. Maybe stage 2 will be to incorporate Reporting Services in the mix (if you haven't already thought of that and didn't see it in the article). Keep up the innovative thinking!!!