Hi Robi,

> - Is it possible somehow to keep track of progress of long-running
> update batches and stored procedures from ISQL or other
> DB admin tool? I mean, to display the number of processed records.

I think you could write your stored procedures as selectable and
return the number of records processed: that way you could execute
the procudure using select * from myproc and it would display how
many records its processed.

Regards
Ian Newby