> >> MS SQL team != MS Windows team. And MS have resources to buy
> >> best brains to work on MS SQL. And they did so
> >>
> >
> > I must say I do not always get that impression :-)
> >
>
> Same here! :) Their trigger language is highly convoluted, and
> counter-intuitive in more ways than I thought possible... I also find
> their system tables a bit messy.

There's a bit of history there... SQL 2005 is much better as it changed
all system tables.

Martijn Tonies
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