Microsoft do not seem able to get the user authentication/authorisation security model right. It is fragmented, complex, duplicated in parts and still incomplete, which means mistakes and loopholes highly...

Steve - thanks for those thoughts. I wish life were that simple. I seem to have spent most of my time trying to stop the lunatics taking over...

Nice article. Thanks! Introduction of the move file technique has been a welcome advance in SQL Server. In the bad old days (SQLServer 6.5/7.0) I used to...