I agree with Jeff and highlight what you know, don't sweat what you don't. Show them you can learn and are willing to tackle any project. Show experiences from your...

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You get signals up in Alaska?

Surprisingly, no neighbor is within 1000 ft of my house, yet for some reason I see 2 other Routers appearing in my wireless network.

Maybe...

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Look at the result set, add your filter

This is typically a disk error meaning the file can't be read. Can you copy the file over? It would eliminate network issues.

There is a runtime for DTS packages on 2005, so you can run them in that. I believe this is only 32-bit, but I thought a 64-bit version was coming.

You...

When you make a schema change, a new table is created, the data copied over, and then the old table dropped, new table renamed.

This is probably what's happening. If you...

Does the user need to read all tables?

A login is a server level security object that maps to a user in a database. So you need to create a user...

Thanks and glad you like the topic. I was hoping for more of a response 🙁

We used to change emails to email001@xxx.com, email002@xxx.com, etc., to correspond with some id value...

I find the painting thing hard to believe, but it probably depends where it was tried. San Francisco might allow that 😉

Let me reframe this slightly, since I probably didn't...

You've done a lot of what I'd suggest. I would look at the disk system, I wonder if you've got hardware issues.

The other thing I'd check is do you have...

I'd go with Matt's solution. Even if you change memory, you have to read in the initial data into the data cache, which is slow.

We've done this, created a...

Does the SQL user have rights to run the package? It has to be able to read it from MSDB.

If you execute that statement from your workstation, does it work?

Neither one. They will run differently. The first runs as 3 separate transactions, assuming you do not have implicit transactions changed. It could result in some data being inserted...

Jack is correct. There are two mail systems, SQL Mail, run by the SQL Server database engine, and SQL Agent Mail, run by SQL Agent. You need Database Mail set...