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Maybe my impression of it has come from a few roles or individuals I rubbed shoulders with in the past year or two, folks deemed to be my developer-betters, who...

Yeah...I think in reality, there is a column that can be used as a natural key, given the fact that out of 3 million records, it never duplicates from what...

Thank you.  
I will do that.
I also wonder sometimes if the popularity of Merge hasn't perhaps overdone, just a bit, its value over truncate / insert, drop table / select...

That can also be solved by "escaping" that particular character, when not doing by user control.

Okay, thanks for the illustration.  I mean ... I could have guessed this, but it just seems like one of a number of possible things, if people are going to hit...

This is a value in a varchar column, though, not sys tables with object names ... But I see what you mean.  (or I guess you were just putting that...

From my experience there could be a whole handful of possible causes.  Permissions, how wscript.exe or cscript.exe is invoked, etc.

I would try variations of whether you have cscript.exe...

Thanks for the advice, gentlemen, appreciated.
I've definitely never heard the comment about not to use USE DATABASE code before, so...will have to read up on that.  Thanks ...........

I know, I know, this post is so old and why am I replying. 
Because I need to do this exact same thing, and the "I can't help but...

ok that's what i was thinking but had started to become confused & doubt.  🙂

thanks for clarification - and also for the links, i've started reading them -...

As far as it being designed only for that, that's not the impression I got after reading Microsoft's description of it.  Rather, it "Specifies whether SQL Server automatically rolls...

"I can't find any "nastygram" in this topic" 

...I respect your opinion on that, and I'm aware there are people of all languages on this board (native english speakers...

Thanks much to those who helped me, I appreciate it.

To whoever it was that apparently didn't look at the text file I uploaded before posting the rant about...

GRRR  (at myself) ... I'm very thankful to you for looking at my problem, can't believe I forgot that attachment!  Sorry.  Here it is.  

Thx
Isaac