Burning data to DVDs is somewhat irrelevant. That's a file copy operation, and it can be a good way to transfer data. Since you cannot burn from SQL Server, the...

I had the pleasure of Mr. Moden's company at dinner for a couple hours tonight at SQL Saturday #60. If any of you find yourself in the same town as...

Yes, Steve can't spell. I completely blame Firefox for...

Cleveland, Ohio....Ohio.....Ohio.... (think Drew Carey)

Tom, I'm less than concerned with debates in the editorial forum, or this Anything Not about SQL forum. Those are there for opinionated debate. It's the technical threads I worry...

I'm not calling out any particular person, and I've certainly been guilty of posting a few less than professional things in my time. I'm just asking you to think about...

SHUTDOWN is a T-SQL command, so you need a connection to execute it. It's the same, essentially, as clicking "Stop" in Services.

If you can't connect to SQL, have you tried...

On a lighter note, I paid my fees to play baseball here in 2011.

Now I need to start throwing.

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Nope, I'm about to start a new install of 2005 and see if I see it. Don't remember the "name/company" thing in the R2 install I did

Isn't the upgrade wizard part of 2000 though, not v6.5? So it might be doing a script objects/ bcp data, which is all that the DTS xfer database does.

In any...

I rarely delete stuff, but that one went so sideways, with almost no technical info, that I decided to whack it.

It wasn't anything I haven't seen before, but it seemed...

I thought that SQL 7/2000 could restore up from v6.5, but maybe not. This mentions the upgrade wizard, which might just be a DTS transfer

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa176562(v=SQL.80).aspx

Can I step back and ask why you need this? Not questioning you, but trying to help think a little outside the box about what might work.

My first thought is...