Wrt the one line sales pitch at the end of my last two QOTDs, this is deal I worked out with Steve Jones. I provide a couple of really good QOTDs and get a one line blurb at the bottom. I've also provided one without any blurb too, or Steve asking, as a thank you.

It takes about 1/2 hour to put together a well-worded, unambiguous question that a lot of people will benefit from. I don't see it as a hardship to have to endure a one-line, unobtrusive advert at the end. SQL Server Central is, after all, a business, even though it's totally free for everyone.

I could further justify it by saying that almost 100% of the tons of info and time Kimberly and I provide to the SQL community is totally free and unencumbered with adverts (SQLskills.com is completely ad-free), so I don't feel bad about very occasionally doing something with a string attached. I don't really like saying that though.

Thanks