Thanks for straighting me out, perhaps too much holiday cheer.

Hey guys! Lighten up its just a game to help us learn and mistakes happen.

I knew I was missing something.

yes, msdts.exe is in Task Manager

Yes, and it runs fine in Query Analyzer by itself. I also included the INSERT in the variable with same results. It does work on other servers. ...

I am running SQL Server 2000 SP 3. I am logged on as sa. I am point to either master or a user database. I run from my...