Client-server simple question

In SQL 2000, if I'm running Query Analyzer on a client machine, and do
something like
Select * Into NewTable from OldTable
the data records don't all come from the server to my client machine and go
back to the server, do they? Doesn't all the data movement actually take
place ON the server?
The only reason I ask is that during this operation, the LAN icon "light"
in the system tray is solidly lit up, while it's not usually that way (it
usually blinks on and off). Maybe that's just status communication to QA,
but the icon is lit completely solid during this operation.
Thanks.
David WalkerThe data should not be zooming back and forth across the LAN.
What is probably being sent is the clock updates to the QA.
Rick Sawtell
MCT, MCSD, MCDBA|||"Rick Sawtell" <quickening@.msn.com> wrote in news:OYnpflb#EHA.3368
@.TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl:

> The data should not be zooming back and forth across the LAN.
> What is probably being sent is the clock updates to the QA.
> Rick Sawtell
> MCT, MCSD, MCDBA
>
>
OK, thanks. That's what I hoped. The "light" being on solid is strange
for clock updates to the QA, but ... thanks.
David Walker