Gotcha, thanks for the info. Guess I need to put SQL Server on the list of "learn this next" ;-)

>In many ways, SQL Server will be an app server.
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>With SQL 2000, you will be able to write your own processes using that other white meat - Visual Basic..< vbg >...T-SQL in many ways is a bass-aackward language. VB will be of immense help there...
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>With SQL 2000, I believe the ability will exist to have one logical SQL Server spread accross multiple physical machines.
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>Of course, no rule is an absolute. Yes, it often makes sense to not clutter the server with all the work. However, for operations like these, the server is the correct place. If they are 1-time only operations, who cares.
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>So, with all that said, the scaling issues you bring up, in reality, will not be that significant...
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