Actually Tom was spot on, with a bit of twist and a little tongue-in-cheek I'm sure! Well done sir!

Not a word you'd use in passing conversation but it means "Sleazy politicians or lawyers"

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snollygosters

by the balls

Red-heads

bedhead

Sorry, double-post. My screen never cleared. My fault!!

Is there a shrink of the database occurring manually or is the database set to auto-shrink, and coincidentally it's doing it at the time of backup? What do you get...

verbose

impecunious

insidious

The coffin draggers

Hmmm, point padding? 😉

Is there a reason you are running it in Windows Task Scheduler as opposed to within SQL? SQL can email for you, on completion or error, with some set-up. Personally,...