This is how the rand() function in C/C++ works as well. It's psuedorandom, meaning, once you seed it, you will get the same sequence of numbers over and over until...

seems like a nice feature would be to let the database owner or sysadmin set an option that makes objects owned by dbo by default.

Still, it seems that most database...

I would definitely use a UNC path as it is always unambiguous. What is someone comes along and changes your drive mappings (through the use of a login script for...

How do you handle qualifying objects with dbo when using an application that can run on either Oracle or SQL Server (using ODBC)? Oracle has no 'dbo' user, so referencing...