Hi Brian,

thanks for correcting me!

With out of the box installation the normal user has at least enough rights to crash his box ultimately

What I take from this, is that you need highly-skilled admins to get this job efficiently done. So you have three risk factors, the software, the hardware, and the 'human factor'.

Nonetheless, I'd prefer the SQL Server (and *NIX) approach to deny the normal user 'anything' unless it is explicitly granted.

Cheers,

Frank