• Good question.

    I find it rather surprising that 19% of people to date think the column name doesn't carry over, and 17% think the data type doesn't carry over - I would expect more than 90% of people to know that both those properties are transferred to the new table.

    30% of people think that nullability doesn't carry over to the new table, and that's not just surprising it's appalling.

    Only 18% of people thought that sparseness carried only, so about as many people understand that sparseness is not copied as understand that the column names are or that data types are. Seems quite bizarre! And about twice as many get sparseness right than nullability, which seems even bizarrer.

    Tom