Quick post
today about my favourite SQL Server “feature”.
This is when you create a user account the default database is master.
The only sensible
reason for installing the Northwind database I think is so that you can set it
to be the default database for logins! 
I wonder
how many times in history people have just opened the Query Analyser and ran a
script accidentally against master rather than the database they intended.
(Humph! What ever that number is... add one to it)