There is a DTS runtime that you can use to run packages.

Thanks, better late than never, and glad you didn't have to get back to work or this site until today!

Happy New Year!

What is happening? Or what isn't happening? You haven't provided much information. Is SSMS running? Can you connect to the instance?

These are great comments on commenting code (recursive comment there?), and I don't avoid documentation, but I don't think it has to be incredibly detailed. Part of my reasoning is...

I don't think I'm selling things short. DBAs do a lot of tuning and moving data around. It depends on your job and things I've done heavily in one job,...

Good job, James. A nice explanation that I'll have to remember to run-run periodically.

I thought I heard last year that there's no great benefit to multiple log files, except space...

I'm not sure here. The certificate is stored in the database, and with a password, I don't think it has anything to do with the DMK. So anything not encrypted,...

Nice and thanks for sharing./

Nice reference, maybe that should be in the description for the Newbies forum.

I bemoan that SSIS made semi-simple transforms much more complex. For things slightly beyond the wizards. I thought...

So hopefully you have an external time sync or SQL Server (and Windows) will be a second behind. At least I'm guessing.

And I don't want to see any patch...

sjsubscribe, good points, but I'm not sure that the lawyer analogy is the same. Lawyers bring experience in areas and they often rely on that experience to make decisions about...

Oh, and we've talked about notifications. It's a bit tricky to do this since the system on which it's based doesn't have a lot of room for changes. I would...

Active Threads used to be one way we found low-reply items. The other was a job that ran once a day and "reposted" a note to threads with no replies...

Hey, that's a great time to work. You can shovel manure two ways then 😛

Do you mean the server against which the package is being executed? Or something else?