Hi, This is my first post to this Forum.... I am trying to get my head around linked server, stored procedures .... I'd like to see an example of a stored procedure that: 1) links to 'remote' SQL2005 server db 2) performs an update or insert on a linked table and a local table with rollback of the whole transaction if one of the updates / inserts fails (and if possible: give appropriate error message as to which of the updates / inserts in the transaction failed)..... Can someone please help out with this? thanks....