Oh, in .NET <s>

I can't reproduce the error on the fill of dataset now that the page timeout is happening first, but good idea on the sqlexception.message value.

When it does crash on the fill, will the sqlexception object exist already (so that I can check it with the command window), or do I have to wrap my fill with catch..try or instantiate the sqlexception myself before the incident?

I'm going to get rid of the page timeout by doing a response.flush or somesuch thing to stop the browser's waiting as soon as I figure out how to do that. Microsoft tech support said it is the way to go on this long running process.

As always I appreciate your great input.

>>The exception has a Message property.
>>I am not seeing any error messages from SQLServer. I don't know how to check this.
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>What's in the Message property of the SqlException object?
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>-Mike