Thnk you for your help I have opted for the moment to have the Network administrators at the various sights stop the browser service in sql 2005 to stop...

If we put the database in single user mode the tables and stored procs we are upgrading and the data transfers hap in a fraction of the time. The...

I'll give it a go thanx

no  not to my knowledge

Thank you I feel pretty stupid monday morning Iguess

ASW is an off the shelf system that sadly has no last updatedcolumn in fact it has no dates in this set of tables.  Thank you for the help given...