Well, in the article was mentioning of application using SQL authentication, so it made me think that server is mixed.

Anyway, it was interesting food for thought. I was thinking...

I agree

I'm just curious, wouldn't using sa account do the same?

I haven't known that ROWCOUNT will override TOP, but I kind of guessed.

When I tried it, I've noticed that ROWCOUNT locks number of results for the session, so if you...