Hugo Kornelis (1/3/2011)

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john.moreno (1/3/2011)

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Hugo Kornelis (1/3/2011)

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After reading your reply, I started to doubt, so I copied the script, pasted it in SSMS, changed it to work for SQL Server 2005

Which is a bit of a problem -- 5% of the respondents said zero, zero. I image that most if not all of them were thinking 2000/2005, where that would be the correct answer. I noticed the syntax, but picked the right answer because I remembered someone pointing out this as a new feature in 2008, if not for that I would have thought it was a trick question and picked zero, zero.

Though I agree that it would have been better to include the version in the question text, or to use a more backward compatible syntax, I don't thnik this should affect the result of the question much. It's 2011 already; the first CTP for SQL Server 2011 has been out for quite some time already - I think it's safe to assume version 2008 when nothing is mentioned explicitly.