Ahhh.  Good one, Rudy.

Forget dynamic SQL.  Use Rudy's suggestion.  It'll save you having to change even the linked server connection / alias if the hardware changes.

Andras,

I just noticed that myself... GAH!  I'm working on so many bug fixes today that I feel like I left my brain at home.  I am such a Ditz sometimes....

I still don't understand why ObjectID() would make a difference with non-temporary tables.  It just happened to me again....Sortof.  Now in the opposite way...

If exists (Select name from MyUserDB.sys.objects where...

Unfortunately, the Upgrade Advisor article in BOL doesn't actually say what might be depreciated in future versions of SQL Server.  And I actually need quotable text to give to the...

Maybe that's what I saw.  Information on the numeral version being depreciated... Ninja, do you have a source for that?

Thanks,

If you're aliasing a Delete table for a join, the same principal works.  Example:

Delete from MyTable

from MyTable t1

join OtherTable t2

on t1.A = t2.A  ...

Basically, you have to list the FROM...

Are you talking about in the text of the proc or in the actual proc name?

You can write a T-SQL statement that pulls the name & Text of the Procs affected...

Except for the problem that the job is what actually schedules the SSIS package, so using SSIS to schedule the job wouldn't work except in a very recursive, clumsy way.

A...

The more I think about your idea, Ed, the more I like it.  I'm not sure how easy or hard it really would be for MS to code it up,...

I definitely would like to just go in and click a little check box next to each job step to say "Disabled".  It would make my life much easier.  And...

As much as I hate to suggested it, the only way you can do what you want is through the use of dynamic SQL.  Stored procedures and Cursors don't like...

Well, the agent does support that sort of thing much in the same manner as John mentioned the disabling of steps.  What you do is use the sp_start_job proc to...

Okay, now I feel just plain silly. @=)

I completely forgot about that functionality... Thanks for reminding me, John.

Half the stuff posted on Monster anymore seems to be trying to get people into Sales jobs or get them into training classes.  It's sad.

Worse when they stick ads for...

Good point on the definition, Matt.

I actually meant outsourced in the sense that the DBA A) a contractor (not employed directly by the company and B) doesn't come into the...