yep, that's the approach I'm going to take. have not had time to tackle this yet. Probably get serious with it later this week.

thanks, that's a great suggestion. I can just suck up the file using scp/ftp or whatever works on these windows boxes (hoping I can find something that'll work) then...

Yes, I had thought of that and discarded it as being too much of a hassle, primarily because of network issues. The 14 servers are pretty isolated from each...

Thanks Lowell,

Yea, I'm just concerned about odbc in perl to sql server. Never done that. But I guess using tools I know (perl, dbi, mysql) etc is likely...

thanks for all the good info.

sorry for the post in the wrong forum.

off to read the suggestions.