Ah, I see your point, and my misunderstanding. I was thinking from an Admin's point of view (who would possess slightly more clue), and not something under control...

Ah yes, you make a good point about SQL Express; I rarely use that edition, so I forget about the limitations of it. That would be a case...

Other than capturing STDOUT and STDERR, and doing potentially interesting things with them (when the dos PIPE commands work just fine too), I can see no reason to go through...

Are you kidding? I'm sure I'm exaggerating, but it sure feels like any non-trivial recovery scenario I've had to deal with involved multiple failures, either as a root cause,...