I'm confused as well. The question asked if the queries were the same, not if the result sets were the same. According to the link you supplied, the queries are the same. There's not enough information to determine if the result sets would be the same.

I'm not sure from your post if your suggesting that "the same" is not the same as "equivalent" or if "equivalent" is not equivalent to "the same", but I think most of us will agree that they are synonyms in this context. Either way, now were discussing semantics not SQL. Just my opinion...

Greg