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Last year I read a piece in Vanity Fair that talked about Microsoft and how the company has appeared to stagnate somewhat over the last decade. As a stockholder, I've been a little disappointed in Microsoft's performance, especially as I've seen many other technology companies grow rapidly in that time. The performance has been more suited to some of the stodgier industrial companies than a high tech offering. There was a time when Microsoft courted developers, and created an excitement that resulted in many individuals and companies writing new applications for the Windows platform and caused an explosion of growth, not just for Microsoft, but for everyone in the ecosystem. The last six or seven years it seems Apple has taken over that crown with the excitement generated by iOS. Even as Microsoft made a fantastic update to its core OS with the lean and fast Windows 7, and even as SQL Server has grown to become a platform that can power almost any application in the world. Overall, however, I think Microsoft has become more of a business than an innovator. There is an incredible focus on business and sales first, and awesome technology second. I don't think leadership is inspiring or even leading the company well. I feel that there is a lack of focus across the business, with such a disparate set of products and efforts, that the overall view of one of many independent groups vying for resources and lacking a coherent vision of where the company is headed. That results in a lot of products that don't seem to integrate well, at least without lots of patches. Microsoft isn't doing badly, however, as they just posted record revenues. Even better for us data professionals is the fact that SQL Server revenue was up 16%, which shows the product is popular, solid, and selling well. I expect we'll continue to see lots of advancement in the features we can use in future versions. Now if they'd just get rid of the sideshow of "R2" naming.... » Join the debate, and respond to today's editorial on the forums The Voice of the DBA PodcastsWe publish three versions of the podcast each day for you to enjoy.
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Today's Question:
--Using SQL Server 2008R2 or 2012
--I execute the following two (2) CREATE TABLE statements.
CREATE TABLE dbo.Output(ID INT,Col1 CHAR(15),Col2 INT, Col3 INT)
CREATE TABLE dbo.Input(ID INT IDENTITY(1,1),Col1 CHAR(15),Col2 INT, Col3 INT)
-- I then execute the following T-SQL statement
INSERT INTO Dbo.Input
VALUES('Surprise',20, 30),('Whoops',10,15),('Again',100,200)
--I then execute the following T-SQL
--Delete statement
DELETE dbo.Input
OUTPUT DELETED.ID,DELETED.Col1,DELETED.Col2,DELETED.Col3
INTO Dbo.Output
WHERE Col1 = 'Again' OR Col1 = 'whoops'
--I then execute the following T-SQL statement
SELECT * FROM dbo.Output
The Questions are: can OUTPUT be used with a deletion? If OUTPUT can be used with a delete, how many rows were deleted by the Delete statement? Select the three (3) correct answers. Think you know the answer? Click here, and find out if you are right. This question is worth 2 points in this category: DML. We keep track of your score to give you bragging rights against your peers. We'd love to give you credit for your own question and answer. To submit a QOD, simply log in to Contribution Center. |
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What will the outcome be after running all the following statements as 1 batch?
-- Statement 1
Select
1 As [RowId]
, 'True or False: The HAVING clause is the 4th phase of logical query processing?' As [Question]
, 'True: 1-FROM, 2-WHERE, 3-GROUP BY, 4-HAVING, 5-SELECT, 6-ORDER BY.' As [Answer]
, '15 Jan 2013' As [PublishDate]
Into
#TempQoD;
-- Statement 2
Select * From #TempQoD;
-- Statement 3
Drop Table #TempQoD;
GO
Note: This was only tested with SQL Server 2008 SP3
Answer: All statements will succeed and 1 row will be returned. Explanation: The Select Into statement can be used to create tables on the fly. From MSDN: "SELECT…INTO creates a new table in the default filegroup and inserts the resulting rows from the query into it." Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188029(v=sql.110).aspx |
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