from MS Project 2000
<file> <save as>
click on <odbc>
Machine data source
<new>
click on system data source
select SQL Server, which is the bottom of the list of options.
It will ask you to fill in:
a. Name of Data Source
b. Description of Data Source
c. Then it will ask you to select which SQL Server via pulldown menu
accept the defaults through the rest and you knopw it worked when you click test data and it tells you it was successful. You only need to set this up once--thereafter, you select it as a machine data source {it will now be on the list}
The helps in both SQL Server and MS Project 2000 are very useful in getting through the process.