DTS package runs slow when run from SQLAgent

So I've seen some posts about slow DTS performance. Many of them seem
to be related to the package execution times increasing over time.
That's not my situation.
I have this one DTS package that I had been running from SERVERA. It
normally runs in under 5 minutes. I had the package scheduled in a SQL
Server Agent 2000 job. The package was responsible for truncating a
table in a database on SERVERB and then copying data from a table in
an Oracle daabase on SERVERC.
I'm working on consolidating some SQL Server instances, so I figured
I'd add the Oracle client to SERVERA, move the DTS package to SERVERA
and recreate the job on SERVERA as well. So the DTS package runs
perfectly fine when I'm terninal serviced into the server and
executing the package from either the DTS designer or from the command
line. However, the package seems to hang when running the job from a
SQL Server Agent job.
I'm using the same user account when executing the job from terminal
session and job. The only difference I've seen so far is that SERVERB
is setup to run SQL Server and SQL Agent as DOMAIN\sqlservices, but
SERVERA is setup to run the services as sqlservices@.domain.com. I
can't imagine that would be the problem, though.
Do you have any suggestions as to what the problem could be. I can't
put the job on SERVERA into production until I figure why it doesn't
run like it does on SERVERB.
Thanks in advance,
OsolageHi
"Osolage" wrote:

> So I've seen some posts about slow DTS performance. Many of them seem
> to be related to the package execution times increasing over time.
> That's not my situation.
> I have this one DTS package that I had been running from SERVERA. It
> normally runs in under 5 minutes. I had the package scheduled in a SQL
> Server Agent 2000 job. The package was responsible for truncating a
> table in a database on SERVERB and then copying data from a table in
> an Oracle daabase on SERVERC.
> I'm working on consolidating some SQL Server instances, so I figured
> I'd add the Oracle client to SERVERA, move the DTS package to SERVERA
> and recreate the job on SERVERA as well. So the DTS package runs
> perfectly fine when I'm terninal serviced into the server and
> executing the package from either the DTS designer or from the command
> line. However, the package seems to hang when running the job from a
> SQL Server Agent job.
> I'm using the same user account when executing the job from terminal
> session and job. The only difference I've seen so far is that SERVERB
> is setup to run SQL Server and SQL Agent as DOMAIN\sqlservices, but
> SERVERA is setup to run the services as sqlservices@.domain.com. I
> can't imagine that would be the problem, though.
> Do you have any suggestions as to what the problem could be. I can't
> put the job on SERVERA into production until I figure why it doesn't
> run like it does on SERVERB.
> Thanks in advance,
> Osolage
It is not clear if you have specified SERVERB as part of the DTSRun command
or whether you have modified the job to run with distributed transactions. I
f
you have done the former then I would expect similar times and any
degredation would be network related.
John