Joe - Good basic script for dynamic Linked Servers...an auxilary post I have put up is remote RECONFIGURE capability as:

[linked-server].master.dbo.RECONFIGURE does not work.

Any ideas appreciated!

thnx Jay

Hello Steve,

You make a good point...free 'social' data requires a huge amount of filtering and cleaning.

Two answers:

* we have software tools to qualify and clean data(raw sales leads...