thanks for getting back to me.

i'll give it a try and get back to you soon.

ALZDBA - thanks. i will keep that in mind.

By the way, would you happen to know what's preventing the code in my OP from getting SP_START_JOB to work via a...

Hello ALZDBA,

Thanks for your response. That's an interesting approach - executing raiserror that will raise an alert that can then start a job - that way I don't have...

Hi Nisha. Thanks for your help.

I gather that the way to go is to set

IMEX=1 when you're going to select from excel

IMEX=0 when...

Great. It works.

Hey Adam, thanks again for helping me today. That's two problems solved.

Excellent. It works now. It looks like the HDR and IMEX settings were throwing it off.

Thanks so much for your help. You've saved me a lot of...

Thanks for responding.

The file is not read-only.