Suresh Raavi is a database professional, with a zest for SQL Server specializing in Administration and performance tuning. Presently, he is a Sr. SQL Server DBA at the Microsoft Products and Services IT SQL team, taking part in various challenging projects, focusing mainly on performance tuning, database development, high availability and database design. He is passionate about database technologies and "data" in general. He has earned the MCITP Database Administrator 2008, and holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering. He provides insights from the field on his blog at http://SqlServerZest.com. His hobbies includes Running and Travelling.
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More Funny SELECTs

What does this code return?

SELECT
  ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder
    FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
    WHERE
      soh.OrderDate     > '01/01/2011'
      AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2012') AS OrdersIn2000
, ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder
    FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
    WHERE
      soh.OrderDate     > '01/01/2012'
      AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2013') AS OrdersIn2001
, ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder
    FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
    WHERE
      soh.OrderDate     > '01/01/2013'
      AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2014') AS OrdersIn2002;
GO

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