If CheckID 260 was not skipped and ran successfully, CheckID 261 reuses the same output temp table to not have to call xp_cmdshell more times than needed All these 4 checks are added to the checks to ...

Making Your T-SQL Work Smarter: sp_MSforeachdb Last time, we showed how to take advantage of a built-in stored to run a command against multiple tables.

SP3 contains a lot of fixes to the earlier service pack that were reported via Microsoft's customer feedback systems, including fixes to Cumulative Updates 1 through 4 for SQL Server 2008 SP2.

In related news, Microsoft announced that the Common Criteria evaluation of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 has been submitted to the German Federal Office for Information Security for certification ...