>Alternatively the documentation (Books Online, or BOL as it is often >referred to) for SQL Server 2000 is archived here: >http://www.ddart.net/mssql/sql2000/html/ that's some kind of chinese mirror, likely unauthorized go directly to the source -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/startsql/g etstart_4fht.asp you can also download BOL but it's 38megs or something, holler if you want the url rudy