Sure, I mentioned this in the original comment:

"Of course in the real world we know that sometimes people share phone numbers, like the landline number for a residence....

Roger that, thanks Steve.

Great, that's just the kind of info I was looking for - ie, what stylesheets were available by default. I did discover via experimentation that 'pre class="brush: sql;" - presumably...

If it was working, this message would be a "rolls eyes" emoticon.

As an update for the curious: I was able to reproduce the error from the command line (via SQLCMD) today, using the same "create view" batch. It's reported slightly differently,...

Oh and Kevin: Yep, the execution batch is always preceeded by a select @@SPID batch. This is a separate batch. I don't think it's important, AFAIK this statement is always...

No crazy database settings Jeff. I have a strong suspicion that this is not an SSMS problem - although I share your dislike of EF guru 😉 - nor an...

Not all that telling unfortunately. The SQL log reported nothing. Profiler indicated a batch starting event with "select @@SPID;" and shows nothing further (when capturing batch/rpc/sp starting events, and pretty...

I'm surprised I haven't had a single nibble on this one.

Today I had some free time to play around and see what I could discover. 

In one...

I enjoy discussions about abstract models, partly because that's my primary area of expertise, and partly because there aren't enough of them!

In any case, I agree that a...