• looks like someone has specifically prevented new databases from being created...most like a DDL triger at the server level. that is not an MS error message...someone returned that message as a custom error message.

    otherwise, with normal permissions, you'd get this error:

    [CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database 'master']

    Lowell


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