>>>>Of all the words, they had to use that *nix like syntax :).
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>>>You've to remeber the origin of MS SQL Server. :)
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>>Um... DOS? Windows 3.x? :)
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>Sybase DataServer on Unix

I knew this... obviously MS has times when they completely forget about the NIH (not invented here) syndrome. They even buy products which never had anything to do with Basic :).