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  • August 27, 2008 at 6:54 pm

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    colin Robinson (4/21/2008)

    Thanks for the pointer,

    That would make a decent interview question. and it least a truncate means you can retain permissions etc.

    Thanks for the feedback... Correct... no need to rebuild any permissions that way...

    Not sure it makes such a great interview question... if too many people ask it, others hear of it and it becomes one of those things people simply memorize without ever having done it. I rather like weaving it into a simple multi-statement code example and ask them questions about what the intermediate and final result set's would be. Sure, memorization could still help there, but at least I know that they know when it applies and what it actually does and when.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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    How to post code problems
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