I don't mind being wrong (gotta learn some way) but had a devil of a time finding exactly where it was noted STANDBY couldn't be used if an upgrade was...

On the plus side, the error is not replicated in the Explanation section. Nice question to start the week...

These are questions that reminds one to read all the documentation for a statement. Which is why I am one of the many that selected NULL as my answer. Great question.

Fun with Steve's answer:

His comments on the correct answer has a somewhat minor error, but for the fun of all of us, I'm not going to state it...

Fun with Steve's answer:

His comments on the correct answer has a somewhat minor error, but for the fun of all of us, I'm not going to state it here, but...

It was interesting both reading Andy's post from 5 years back, as well as the comments. After all, who knew how our lives would radically change in the interim.

Of the...

"Would you learn MySQL for a new job? Or are you a die-hard, this is my platform kind of person?"

I think we would all learn whatever we needed to for...

This could be fun...

The first company I worked for that was not mainframe dependent used Novell Netware for their internal network, and BTrieve for the relational database for the initial...

Interesting feature that I didn't know about before. I would suppose it would make it easier to select data from a table with a long, confusing or hard to spell...

Great QOTD. I saw it right away thanks more to the clue that there was only one table in the database. Otherwise I'm pretty sure that I would have missed...

I really thought this was going to be a trick question. I decided that the trick was that it was not a trick. We all tend to overthink these questions...

Well, nothing reading the text for both answers. The fact that both answers were used is probably interesting in...

Fun question to start the week. Fun working with negative numbers in functions; one always needs to think a bit out of the box.

I have to say, I rather liked that in the daily email, it was referred to as Service "Broken".

Which sometimes is what we have had to work on in my...

So of course as I progress through my emails today I have a second daily newsletter in a different format where the links work. Looks like the old format and...