Michael,

Thanks for helping. In fact, on saturday when we had the problem we solved it the same way you expose here, and it worked fine.

Fausto

>Hypens are not valid for identifiers within SQL Server.
>
>I think the error message is telling you that you're going to have to rename the local server to get rid of the hypen and then use sp_setnetname to create a mapping between the new SQL Server name and the actually server's NETBIOS name.
>
>Try this:
>
>sp_dropserver SPE002001-001
>sp_addserver SPE002001_001, 'LOCAL'
>sp_setnetname SPE002001_001, 'SPE002001-001'
>
>I've not tried this so all the obvious disclaimers are in place <s>
>
>-Mike