jason.handby wrote: >> Or is there something better built into ms sql 2000 that can >> do this for me? >> > > Database replication? > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/archite > c/8_ar_ra_6u05.asp > I wish. Sorry, I didn't mention this. The "master" server is not ours... we need to import from the master but we don't have access to set up anything on that box.