OK James, you win.  Your job in the Army sucked, you should have joined the Air Force. (LOL, not tying to start a flame war here

James, I don’t know what military you were in, but I was USAF and we NEVER worked 12/7 unless there was some special exercise on. ...

I found a way to make it work

Imports System

Imports System.Data

Imports System.Math

Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime

Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.MessageBox

   Public Sub Main()

        '

       ...

I’ve been working since I was 15.  That’s 34 years of experience in one type of job or another.  I will have been at my...

You need to download Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer Components from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=df0ba5aa-b4bd-4705-aa0a-b477ba72a9cb&displaylang=en

This will elable you to run and create DTS packages in SQL 2005.  Be warned though; it's...

As far as I know it's a "feature".  Their new DTS implementation is just full of "features".

Do you have a DTS window open?  This happens whenever I am using DTS, but goes away as soon as I close the DTS window.

Some adds are ok.  Geico for example, those are amusing.  But the vast majority of them appear to be aimed at someone with an IQ...

The true crux of the problem is summed up in your last two lines.

“I would have...

My wife is a personal chef.  She goes to her clients homes and cooks a weeks worth of meals and leaves them in the fridge with detailed re-heating instructions.  I'm...

I would like to be… any one of the following, a blacksmith, an architect, an author, or a fine furniture maker.  The one thing they...

The XML is my bad, this is a significantly shortened and simplified version, and I changed some of the names to protect the guilty

I want to crawl before I walk.  I know the table is "flat", but for now that is the way it needs to be.

I’ve been an Oracle DBA for 15 years.  Before that I was a developer for a number of years, and before that I was a...

If at first you don't succeed, keep sucking until you do suck seed.

Attributed to Will Rodgers, but I don't think so...

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your...