Steve Jones - Editor (3/12/2009)

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If you want to run it in SSMS and get the answer, that's up to you. However that kind of defeats the purpose of the questions. You should make an attempt to answer the question without running it.

Think about it, if someone asked you this in an interview, would you answer it or say, "I can't do it without SSMS?"

Now a much more useful question form, both in interviews and for SSC (IMHO), is "When I run this in SSMS, I get this. WHY?" You just have to make sure that there is a definitive and deterministic answer (which admittedly takes some work to get right).

ChiragNS (3/12/2009)

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Why 4 points for this question? I mean u can run this thing in SSMS and get the answer.