It could be exploited to send mails anywhere, which would be coming from your server/company. However it really depends on you properly checking which mails are going out. Set up...

Not sure what's wrong here? Where are things crashing?

It might be the rebuild. That usually requires 1.5 times disk space in the data file and records a lot of log changes. Can you snapshot the log file size...

That's got to be something (or something missing) in the forum code. I'll take a look.

The code link is fixed. Apologies for that.

First, congratulations.

Second, be sure you have backups running and practice a few restores.

After that, you might want to get a book on SQL Server, read it, and then ask questions...

GUID or int, use some type of surrogate key.

Expect that data will not be clean, and I'd build routines to make it easy to let people "link up" or correct...

I'll see if I can get the boy to do the Halo dance 🙂

Not sure where it comes from. This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_one's_own_dog_food) could be the origin.

At Peoplesoft they wanted to call...

If you click your name in a thread (left side), you'll get to your profile, which has it. I know, it's dumb.

We're working on exposing this elsewhere and hope to...

I'll investigate changing the default.

You might have duplicate keys 🙂

Other than that, nothing I'm aware of.

I think Ed has some great advice and it's what I'd recommend.

It could be because of the compatibility level, but I'd think it would be a bug.

IS there a duplicate index in sysindexes?

Sounds like your log file might have problems. Have you checkdisk'd the drive? Maybe move the log file off and back to make sure there are not bad blocks.

It could...

Lowell had an interesting thought in another thread. Use Windows security to prevent him/her from running the EM executable. That might work.