Have you ever wondered whether the number of tables that you can use in a single SELECT statement is limited or not?
Well, I haven't. But there is a limit. And, contrary to many maximum capacities of SQL Server 2000 specified here (like Databases per instance of SQL Server - 32,767, for example), it is possible to reach it.
When you do, you will see the following error:
Could not allocate ancillary table for view or function resolution.
The maximum number of tables in a query (256) was exceeded.
UPDATE:
I started a discussion about this problem at StackOverflow.
