Keith,
Information seems very promising. Thank you very much for the information.

Einar

>>I posted this question in the .NET section of UT, but since I have received no replies yet I thought I would post it here too.
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>>I have created a small little backup/restore application for backingup/restoring a MSSQL database. Everything is working just fine but I would like to give the user a little more feedback regarding how much is left of the backup/restore process. I know about the STATS [ = percentage] but I am unsure how I can get that information back to my app.
>>Here is how I execute the backup/restore script in my app:
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>>

>>SqlConnection sqlCon = new SqlConnection(this.ConnectionString);
>>SqlCommand sqlCmd = new SqlCommand();
>>sqlCmd.Connection = sqlCon;
>>sqlCmd.CommandText = this.SqlScript;
>>sqlCon.Open();
>>sqlCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
>>sqlCon.Close();
>>

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>>Any info on the topic would be appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Einar
>
>Einar,
>
>I don't think that ADO.NET is going to give you what you want. However, SQL-DMO (2000) or SQL-SMO (2005) Backup class includes a PercentCompleteEventHandler delegate.