I think if the transaction fails with a full tempdb log, it gets rolled back. It seems to me I've seen that written somewhere.

Can you make the job fail? It...

There are absolutely systems with multiple inserts in a split second, and it's not 1000 needed, it's 2 that can cause issues.

I still don't see a reason why identity won't...

I'd agree that you shouldn't mess with the design, and I'd also be careful about basing things on date. Dups will occur, and then you'll be in the case where...

Well, I for one, am sad the NBA ended last night. I was rooting for a Laker's chapionship, but in 6 or 7 games.

Based on that, I think you want the application to generate the flat file and then save it to the server. It doesn't need to have SQL Server generate it.

And if it's for a client app, why not client side.

I just thought as well that SSRS might be the simplest way to do this if clients are going to...

I believe this is an uninstall and reinstall. You should be able to detach databases, and script out user/passwords if you need to.

If you just need to extract data server side, I'd look at SSIS. Or DTS in SQL 7/2000. You can use the data export wizard to create the basic...

Both of your emails, and your name, are protected by SSC. I can see them when I look up the account, but no one else can.

Nothing else is worth a...

The issue with SQLCMD is passing in the output file name.

You could, for example, calculate the filename in T-SQL, then pass that to SQLCMD as part of an XP-cmdshelll string....

You do need some type of date. An identity could work, but since these are not guaranteed to be unique, and they can get re-seeded, I'd be careful about using...

There's no effect I'm aware of. The CPU is silicon, I guess it could run hot and degrade, but it has no moving parts, so I don't think there's an...

I'd run a SETUSER to switch to this user, and run the fn_my_permissions (or whatever it's called) to check permissions.

A DENY will override the other permissions.

I'd experiment a bit...

The maintenance plan resolves some things at save time, but I thought that in 2005 it ran a cursor over sys.databases at run time. Is this an SP2 patched or...

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean that you want to run something in SQL Server and then have the results stored in a separate file or...