If you attempt to take the LOG or SQRT of a negative number in SQL Server 2000, it fails quietly but catastrophically. Should a query attempt to perform one of these operations, the result set is empty -- all rows are discarded. No error is reported, neither to the client nor in the SQL Server logs.
... until the collector arrives ...
This "blog" is really just a scratchpad of mine. There is not much of general interest here. Most of the content is scribbled down "live" as I discover things I want to remember. I rarely go back to correct mistakes in older entries. You have been warned :)