I took the plunge on Vista with two DELL laptops recently. While it may look fancy I think it is a backward step from XP which I think does a...

I am SQL Developer (not DBA) 

I have had the priveledge of working remotely on and off for about 5 years.

I would agree that being more skilled definetly helps as you...

Thanks for all the feedback

I have played with a lot of the settings for osql and it is now working ok.

I am going to have a look at dbghost...

We did try osql but found a few problems.

    1) that the ouptut was not very helpful, lots of numbers output, presumaby one per statement

    2) we create some...