Rob Schripsema (12/5/2011)
Great question. Not what I would have expected....but then, many aspects of SQLVariants are not what I would expect.
Agreed, it's like opening Pandora's Box. I'm not even sure what led Tom to finding this nugget, nevermind how I'd go about finding the full answer if he hadn't spoon-fed me what was going on in a reasonable amount of time.
Variant can burn from everything I've been seeing on the complexity of its rulesets.
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