the intention with auto growth is to intervene before it automatically grows. the auto growth is just a stop-gap emergency measure

John,

I'm very thankful that you posted this info about aliasing server names. I am about to setup a testing environment so I have an immediate use for this.

Thanks again,

taulpall

I will certainly be keen to uncover the softcoding (INI like configuration) capabilities as I experiment with SSIS.:)

This is good information. I wish I would have known about this technique before having hardcode the DTS packages that I use now.

Are there any particular, known issues with converting...