Thanks Jason. That pinned them. The only issue left is the registered servers/object explorer are tabbed instead of one above the other. I can live with that...

The problem is that there is no thumbtack icon. The only thing there is the down arrow to select the Windows position [floating, dockable, tabbed document, hide].

So how do you 'pin' them?

Thanks Chris! I'll take everything I can get. As soon as I finish this I can go back to teh normal SQL world and Access will be a...

What I am trying to do:

1. user chooses variables from a form, i.e. a user, start time, end time, record type

2. run a pass-thru query that executes a SQL stored...

Thanks all for the suggestions. I've learned how to do a pass-thru query then hit the next stumbling block : how to use information from Access within the pass-thru...

Thanks Sergiy......that worked just great!

Thanks Vasc.  The problem I was trying to solve was transaction log backups starting while a full backup was still running.  Before getting your reply, I worked out something similar...

The RAISERROR worked really slick.  Thanks!