Good information, thank you Chris. 

As a DBA SQL Injection is one of my big concerns.  My biggest problem usually lies in getting our developers to appreciate that it's a...

I can't say that I've done this with master, but msdb works (going from Standard to Enterprise) as long as they are both at the same SP/version level.

Off the top of...

Given the error text I would tend to think that this is an application issue.  There may be a SQL Server error somewhere in the process, but it appears that...

You are correct in your assumption that sqlmaint actually looks at the timestamp portion of the file name to determine which files to delete for a given database.  It will...

My guess is that you don't have access!

Actually, it might help if you provided some more details.  When (under what circumstances) are you getting...

As pointed out in other posts, the second example would give an error unless there was a 1 to 1 relationship between the two tables.

On the other hand, many subqueries...

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I concur that we need to remain civil. Overall both this article and the original have evoked a good deal of discussion...

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I must admit to being confused by your anger. Your criticisms do not appear directed at the position that I took.

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