And thanks to everyone for the congratulatory posts. I'm just soooo thrilled about this.

Matt, How did you know the plot of my tale???? Not only an upgrade gone wrong, but the entire Board of Directors standing over a poor DBA's desk demanding...

And to enable xp_cmdshell (if you haven't already), go to SQL Server Surface Area Configuration -> Features. This is where you can enable it. It'll be listed under...

Don't forget, if you're doing a lot of deleting (data from tables), these transactions do get logged. That could also be adding to the size of your Transaction Log....

Don't forget that you don't have to do all your sorting & grouping in SQL Server itself. You can do some of it with the Groups in SSRS. ...

Ahh, who needs access to data anyway! Right? @=)

I love the title of the book you co-authored. "How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server"... How much...

I would advise testing with both an int PK and a change of the nchar(6) to char(6). Run Profiler during the tests so you can see what it's doing....

Thanks for checking that out, William. I appreciate the confirmation.

So, pretty much any reversion from 2k5 to 2000 has to have the following traits:

1) No use of 2k5 objects...

Remember that any datatype starting with the letter "n" is a Unicode-compatible datatype and requires extra overhead for processing. Because Unicode characters have so much more space in them...

And remember, you don't have to install Reporting Services for SQL Server to function.

SSRS is a separate install that you are required to choose (or not) during the...

First response: HA!!!!

Second response: Oh no! AD jokes on a SQL forum. Run away! Run away!

@=)

Anything that doesn't kill you is something else you can add to your resume. @=)

Good luck with your move.

No, I haven't. I've never needed to revert. But even though that wizard is out there, I'm sure it can't revert everything.

There are a lot of...

Yeah, unfortunately you can't move a 2005 database to 2000 without a lot of work. Even then, something will probably fail.

Kimberly Tripp (works for MS) actually said this about...

But in your previous post, you said you're writing "TO" SQL Server 2000. And that is what seems to be the problem to me. Check your destination source...