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Most of us have had an interview or two in our lives. We've had to assemble a resume or CV, create cover letters, and practice answering questions in preparation for an interview. In all of these things, we are looking for ways to market our past work and present it in the best light as evidence that we will make a good employee in our next position.

We each have our own experiences, successes, and failures, but we aren't bound by what's happened in our career so far. We have the ability to shape our brand for the future by making changes in the way we approach our career from this day forward. I have a talk and blog on this subject, but I certainly don't have all the answers. I'm always looking for more ideas and suggestions to help people and wanted to ask for your ideas this week.

What would impress you most about a job candidate?

Is there something that you've seen or heard about in the past that impressed you? If a candidate had written a book, or created some software, would that make you look upon them favorably? I know that a candidate needs to present themselves well in an interview and be able to write SQL, or manage an instance, but when you are examining dozens of resumes, is there something that stands out?

Take a moment and tell us what has impressed you in the past, and whether it was an indicator of a good employee or not.

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Today's Question:

If I am executing the below code, what is the name of the database returned from the three queries (in the same order of execution).

USE master;

-- Query#1
SELECT DB_NAME() DatabaseName1;

EXECUTE ('USE AdventureWorks2008');

-- Query#2
SELECT DB_NAME() DatabaseName2;

EXECUTE ('USE AdventureWorks2008; USE master');

-- Query#3
SELECT DB_NAME() DatabaseName3;

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Given the following code:

use tempdb;
go
create table A (
id int,
val int
);
go
insert into A values
(1,1),
(1,2),
(2,3),
(3,4);
go

create table B (
id int primary key,
val int
);

with CTE as (
 select
  id,
  val,
  row_number() over (partition by id order by val desc) as RowNo
 from A
)

merge into B dest
using CTE src on
src.id = dest.id and
src.RowNo = 1
when not matched by target then
insert (id, val)
values (id, val);

select count(*) as [Count] from B;

drop table A;
drop table B;

What is the result of the select statement?

By Ole Kristian Velstadbråten Bangås

Answer: 0

Explanation: Statements in the on clause of the merge statement are only evaluated if they include a column in the destination table, thus the RowNo is not evaluated, causing attempt to insert duplicate value (1) into the primary key column, so no rows are inserted.

Ref: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510625.aspx

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SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes

SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes provides focused and practical solutions to real world problems of data integration. Need to import data into SQL Server from an outside source? Need to export data and send it to another system? SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes has your back. You'll find solutions for importing from Microsoft Office data stores such as Excel and Access, from text files such as CSV files, from XML, from other database brands such as Oracle and MySQL, and even from other SQL Server databases. You'll learn techniques for managing metadata, transforming data to meet the needs of the target system, handling exceptions and errors, and much more.

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