• In SSMS, are you pressing the Green Triangle, or the Red Exclamation Point?

    The Green Triangle is to run in Debug mode, the Red Exclamation Point executes the query. You want to do the Red Exclamation Point...;-)

    Wayne
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
    Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes


    If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!
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