Lee,

I think you misunderstood me. Nested transactions can be wonderful things, if you need them. If you don't, I don't advise indulging because it's a lot of wasted effort.

What I'm...

At this point, you need to contact the help desk of your third party mail server and maybe even engage Microsoft in the problem. It sounds like an issue on...

I know you said things are working fine, but curiousity just struck.

Did you create the MP while your SQL Server was at SP1 patch level, then create the new job...

Another way, if that doesn't find everything, is to use NOT IN. However, you should be aware that NOT IN uses more processing power than an IN statement.

So:

Select * from...

Hee! True. @=)

Everytime I run into this issue, it's because I'm either using an = sign with a date...

Finally catching up to this thread, now that I have a break from major projectness. Sorry, Lee, that I wasn't able to re-respond earlier.

As far as JacekO's (I think it...

Ah. In that case, you shouldn't have...

Gags,

Please elaborate. What do you mean "fixed it the same way"?

What precisely did you do to fix the index=0 issue to allow the datafile to grow, please?

Okay. This is different from what I thought you were doing.

Check the plan history. Any errors or informational messages regarding the email part?

Lee,

I just caught up to the fact that you're using SQL 2000. You need to repost this in that forum. However, you can still use Temp Tables (look them up...

Lee, according to your pseudo-code in the OP, you're calling at least 4 different stored procedures. That's not really containing everything in...

ACK! let me rephrase.

I'm suggesting you use the DDL trigger to update the staging table. Then use a normal T-SQL SELECT within a job to get the staged data and...

What Jack said. I'm not suggesting a Trigger at all. In fact, I strongly urge you not to use a trigger. Triggers play merry heck with the database processing power.

A...

Slam? I didn't mean to slam. Sorry if you took offense at my reply.

Roy is correct about the procs, though. What you've got will work, but it'll be heck on...

Lee,

I think they do, but don't take our word for it. Stick in a dummy proc in your GOTO that creates some fake data, then stick another dummy proc in...