Like DTS you get parallel processing without using precedence constraint between tasks. However you must configure the control flow's property "MaxConcurrentExecutables" properly. Valid values are >= 1 or -1. If...

Terry,

Thanks for both references they were really helpful and my apologies for the delay in my reply.

- Francis

Team Foundation Server 2005....Canned reports performance is really slow. From my researched the only thing I gathered was a upgrade to SP which I did but no improvement.

Any help would...

Thanks guys -- you've pointed me in the right direction. I will use the extractor to figure out if the backup is bad.

Thanks GSquared it worked. Terry for your input as well.

- Fran

What do you mean MS's update page? I have the full Database Components SP4 download, should I not use that? If I unzip the SP4 download and fire-up the setup.bat...

thanks a million.....really helpful