Larry, In addition to mccork's suggestion let me also recommend that you upgrade your disk drive(s) to a SCSI based system, maybe even a RAID.

V/R

Raleigh

In addition to my last post I would also create the script you need them to run in a stored procedure. I also have set up a special user...

You could look at OSQL batch line script. I use them for quite a bit of routines (Both scheduled and manual) at my company. If you really must...