An interesting QotD, but it was necessary to proceed slowly and cautiously to find the right answers...:hehe:

Thanks Carlo for thoughtfully prepared question and good references.

Thanks Igor for this question. It made me diligently googled and study

SQL Server Hardware e-book from Glenn Bery and more. Then I found the correct

answer in an article on...

Formulation of the question makes me a bit confused. Which transaction isolation level is NOT available to transactions running

in the master and msdb databases? For the DB administrator, all...

Practical for use is that the second parameter may have also a negative value,

thanks for this seemingly simple question Nagaraj. 🙂

Interesting question and even more interesting answer, thanks Steve 🙂

The answer "The row is not updated and no error is returned."

should rather be listed as: "No row is not...

Thanks Steve, a good opportunity to repeat the Query Hints.

I can't forgive join this beautiful article from one gentleman

who was recently as a subject in the QotD. ...

Thanks for an interesting question Steve.

The reference MSDN catalog.start_execution (SSISDB Database) gives only an example

with the parameter N'LOGGING_LEVEL'. The use of other parameters is well explained here:

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2015/11/04/the-synchronized-ssis-execution-parameter.aspx

or here:

http://www.ssistalk.com/2012/07/24/quick-tip-run-ssis-2012-packages-synchronously-and-other-execution-options/

Hmm, interesting, numeric_expression 0.5 - 0.9 cannot be with the ROUND function directly rounded.

SELECT ROUND (0.4, 0);

SELECT ROUND (0.5, 0);

Results

---------------------------------------

0.0

(1 row(s) affected)

---------------------------------------

Msg 8115, Level 16, State 2, Line 9

Arithmetic overflow...

Thanks Steve for this good question. Quite it was useful to repeat

a little something from the SQL Server Security Functions.;-)

RonKyle (9/6/2016)

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What could have thrown me was that I though ET was 5 hours off GMT. ET is five hours behind time in England and 6 in central Europe....

That Grant is "really lazy" and Scary DBA, evidenced by its rich publishing

activity and his excellent book "SQL Server Execution Plans" and more.

So let his laziness will continue, we...

I do not regret that I have got it wrong. I learned something new, thanks Andy. 🙂

The question has been imprecise specified, because only SQL Server Enterprise Edition

supports Data...

+1;-)

Interesting question, thanks Sergey 🙂

I didn't have it easy, but I learned something new, thanks Steve.

Qotd from 2016/08/31 was brilliant, because all the first three answers were right... 😉

The first error was, that...

The question is worded imprecise, and possible answers do not match with

the documentation listed in the reference. I guess it may be in the thorough

preparation for the vacation, all...