Ugh, nightmares of working with EBCDIC. I don't envy you and I'm going to decline to dig in here. Always a pain.

Now that's interesting. I'd go with the Ugly American, us matching each other, but...

I'd be happy to host some project here. If someone wanted to start a sample, we could do it as an article, host the download, and then have someone modify...

Moved to DTS forum. Please watch where you post.

Also, when you do the packages, if you can't see the new server, you can save as a structured storage file, copy...

space wise, we only show 5 + you.

We have more here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/TotalScores

SQL Server 2000 has a debugger in Query Analyzer.

SQL Server 2005 has some debugging in Visual Studio, but nothing built in.

You could possibly pass in global variables from the various schedules. But that would mean separate jobs for each schedule

I'm lost.

Eye B cun-fuzed?

you might try here: http://www.sas70.com/faq/faq14.html

And then post a new thread in the SQL Server 2005, Security forum asking for more info.

Haven't heard or seen anything. There is a large in-memory cube addition for Excel due in 2010.

Scripting additions isn't a bad idea. We could use separate schemas as well for new features so that older scripts/demos still work with the original Northwind structure. The scripting idea...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187329.aspx

You can include 1..n trace flags with DBCC TRACEON

Glad you like it. Pass the word around as we have a limited contract with Mr. Gonick to try these out. Scheduling one for every Wed.

IO seems to be the biggest issue with this, but you have to test. Don't forget that virtual instances are sharing resources. You don't get a "Free machine" by going...

Moving to 2005