BUG
Grids and Graticules Layers can be created in a SQL Server Express database. However, if the connection to the database is through the Database Servers option, the output from the Make Grids and Graticules Layers geoprocessing tool cannot be saved to this database.
This is a known limitation at ArcGIS 10.
Article ID:000010948
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