>Anyone who runs critical production systems without support is quite mad in
>my view. If they are a publicly traded US company then maybe >they are
>falling fowl of federal regs too - the ones that came into play after 911.
>I would say that not being able to run a production system is just > as bad
>as mind numbingly dumb as not having good backups to recover one!

Take it easy. We are just an 'pretedning to be civilised' wild and remote
small country No danger for any US citizens as far as I know.

>There's always the other option too....fix the app that is generating a
>daft query....using the free support it gets.
The problem with the query is that it is partialy generated and not that
trivial.
The sysmasters tables was just an easy to reproduce example - in real the
problem was with dates columns.