This is a great topic and discussion, but I looked and did not find the "Why" part. WHY is it frowned upon to use Select *? I am...

Thanks all for the good info.  I have not tried the Norton Anti-Virus solution, but I bet that's the answer.  I have Norton Anti-Virus installed.  I will try the solution and see what...

Great! Thanks.  I'll give it a try.

I actually DID get it to work with the trusted connection.  I can connect to a named instance of SQL Server 2005 with bcp.exe from the command line (running through a DOS .bat...

Yes, it is up to date.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

I solved all the issues with this post.

The named instance was key to the issue.  There is a special flag and parameter needed to successfully connect to a named instance...

There were two issues involved with this problem.  One was found documented, the other was not.

After much reading, I ran across the switch that allows a named instance of SQL Server...