Aaron Bertrand takes us to the Island of Misfit Databases:
The only database that requires extra handling is the one that contains a tab, because SQL Server doesn’t know how to generate file names when that character is present. I am sure there are a bunch of other less common but equally exotic characters that may cause the same problem.
This is how I actually tested sp_ineachdb, to make sure it was ready for just about any bad idea anyone used to name a database, and could handle various possible database states (for a lot more background on this procedure, and why it is better than the undocumented, unsupported, and buggy
sp_msforeachdb
, see this and this). Here you can see that the procedure works against all these poorly-named databases, and skips databases that are inaccessible (rather than raise an exception).
Click through to see the list of databases Aaron uses. Technically, I think Aaron’s blog post also counts as a Halloween post because some of those databases are spooky.