May 3, 2011 at 10:44 pm
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May 3, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Nice question! You really had me in doubt, as 4 seemed a too easy answer 🙂
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May 4, 2011 at 12:38 am
Good question Steve! 4 seemed too obvious to me as well.
May 4, 2011 at 2:24 am
Thank you Steve. 🙂
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May 4, 2011 at 5:27 am
Thanks for the question. I dithered a little as well, before selecting the "obvious" answer of 4. A good, non-trick question.
May 4, 2011 at 6:49 am
Good question, I know instinctively that each object get's a new set of allocation Units per partition, but I normally do this with clustered indexes, and not heaps.
I went out and did this on a test db real quick to validate what already had known, it's questions like this that help us validate book knowledge by looking in all the little knooks and cranies.
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May 4, 2011 at 7:22 am
Glad it went over well. This one was hard to write without trying to trick people. I wanted it to make you think, but be solvable without misleading anyone.
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May 4, 2011 at 7:45 am
Good question Steve.
May 4, 2011 at 7:47 am
I knew it was either 1 or 4, but I wasn't sure whether the heap would span the partitions or not. So I took a stab at 1 and was wrong. I was just too sure that there was a trick there and dug in too deep, because my gut was telling me 4.
May 4, 2011 at 7:54 am
So the clustered index bit of the question was just a decoy huh? Either way there will be 4 structures whether it is 4 heaps or 4 b-tree's right?
May 4, 2011 at 7:58 am
Good question
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May 4, 2011 at 8:12 am
4 heap structures. If you read the reference, it states this.
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May 4, 2011 at 8:46 am
Good question. Thanks Steve.
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May 4, 2011 at 9:08 am
Nice technical question Steve. Are some of these recent questions resulting from you studying for the MCM Certification?
May 4, 2011 at 9:15 am
Koen Verbeeck (5/3/2011)
Nice question! You really had me in doubt, as 4 seemed a too easy answer 🙂
I felt the same way, but knew the answer was 4.
I hope that is why over 40% are getting the wrong answer.
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