Well, folks, I hate to burst your bubble, but like any complex set of documentation for a product like SQL, the doc is, on occasion, wrong.  This is one of...

OK, My version is the one that came on the CD, which I installed.  It differs from the one to which AJ and Chris refer, but I still don't like...

Hmmmm, even if that were true, then the values I see in the database (e.g. 33954) don't correspond in any meaningful way with the value shown in job history in...

Thanks to all who posted, I have enough information to chew on now!  I am quite new to SQL Server, and am constantly astonished at the depth and breadth (esp....