Hey, you've edited your post

To add to this, I don't see a PWD argument, or am I missing something

What about having a look here: http://www.connectionstrings.com/

Glad to see it works.

See, if this helps:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/sql/2000/all/reskit/en-us/part3/c1161.mspx

Still I would go for the second option. And make sure you have a good backup and recovery concept.

Actually it would make sense, among other things, if you would use the DATETIME data type for @BeginDate and @EndDate.

And probably even more easier would it be to do a...

There is no Left pad function as this can be considered a presentational issue you have  Try this:

DECLARE @MeineZahl INT

SET @MeineZahl = 99

SELECT

 REPLACE(STR(@MeineZahl,10), '...

To add to Steve:

Search my site for 2005. Returns 21 links. Too much to post here. Probably another really interesting one is that to the Beta newsgroups:

http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=sqlserver2005&slcid=us

Extended stored procedures are not stored in any table. They are usually in a DLL file. You can find this out by running something like this:

USE master

GO

EXEC sp_helpextendedproc...

And Frank, what are you doing drinking California Zinfandel?  They make it a couple of miles east of here, but didn't you guys invent it?

AFAIK, is Zinfandel "the" classical American...

With age comes wisdom

...but you still run faster, or what?

I would use the second configuration, but change it to RAID 5, or even better RAID 10 for data files. In any case separate tempDB on its own array.

RETURN ?

Nice one, Dave. 

Btw, I am younger than you and have more hair

Is that better?