cengland0 (5/4/2010)

I would not consider this a bad question - I assume that almost noone actually knew the behaviour differences and actual cause of the error in SSMS before reading the comments.

I definitively learned something again today, and therefore I consider this a good question.

In the end, this is to some extent unpredictable behaviour. Paul definitively did enough research & due diligence before posting this question - sometimes items only get caught in the field test when tested with a wide variety of tools & settings etc. This is the real life.

So definitively thumbs up from me for this QODT!