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  • RE: Declare Variable

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/16/2013)


    If someone has a good explanation that makes sense, I'm happy to change it.

    The batch is processed in two phases.

    Phase one is parsing. This works...

  • RE: Alter Certificate

    Raghavendra Mudugal (9/12/2013)


    Thomas Abraham (9/12/2013)


    Raghavendra Mudugal (9/12/2013)


    Interesting one, Steve. Thank you for the post.

    (I am on fire..... never got the 4 questions correct in a row before and this week...

  • RE: wildcards

    L' Eomot Inversé (9/11/2013)


    Hugo Kornelis (9/11/2013)


    Hany Helmy (9/11/2013)


    I am really amazed of the 16 people (as of now) who got it right! :w00t:

    Hope one of them will post a reply...

  • RE: wildcards

    Hany Helmy (9/11/2013)


    I am really amazed of the 16 people (as of now) who got it right! :w00t:

    Hope one of them will post a reply explaining how he got the...

  • RE: CASE vagaries

    david.gwalter (9/8/2013)


    First time I have come across a question with an incorrect answer.

    A little disappointing for a novice like myself.

    Look at it from the popsitive side - at least the...

  • RE: CASE vagaries

    The question is strange, and the answer is wrong.

    "If an ELSE path is not provided in a CASE statement, the value it returns is NULL, not the initial value of...

  • RE: Tally Tables

    Jeff Moden (9/7/2013)


    Good to "see" you again, ol' friend.

    Same here! Still waiting for an opportunity to actually meet face to face and buy you the beverage of your choice. 😉

    Let...

  • RE: Tally Tables

    Hi Jeff! 🙂

    Jeff Moden (9/6/2013)


    First and semantically speaking, using ROW_NUMBER() isn't the same as an actually Tally Table.

    I completely agree with this....

    Second, if you don't think the "physical" or "intrinsic"...

  • RE: Good and Bad Interview Questions

    I luckily never had to deal with silly interview questions. I have read about them, and I have thought about how to handle it if the situation comes up.

    My most...

  • RE: Tally Tables

    L' Eomot Inversé (9/3/2013)


    I haven't looked hard enough at column store indexes, but it is very hard to believe that an index that doesn't imply an order can imply clustering

    I'm...

  • RE: Tally Tables

    sknox (9/3/2013)


    Hugo Kornelis (9/3/2013)


    sknox (9/3/2013)


    Wow.

    Nobody's mentioned what I consider to be the biggest problem with this question yet.

    You must have overlooked the things already mentioned about ordering by Rune Irvin,...

  • RE: Tally Tables

    L' Eomot Inversé (9/3/2013)


    It could be argued that to be a table in a relational database a table has to have a primary key; that means there is an intrinsic...

  • RE: Tally Tables

    Rune Bivrin (9/3/2013)


    Hugo Kornelis (9/3/2013)


    sknox (9/3/2013)


    Wow.

    Nobody's mentioned what I consider to be the biggest problem with this question yet.

    You must have overlooked the things already mentioned about ordering by Rune...

  • RE: Tally Tables

    sknox (9/3/2013)


    Wow.

    Nobody's mentioned what I consider to be the biggest problem with this question yet.

    You must have overlooked the things already mentioned about ordering by Rune Irvin, Terreador, and me.

  • RE: Tally Tables

    John Mitchell-245523 (9/3/2013)


    Hugo

    I'm on SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2. I ran both queries as a single batch, so there's a single execution plan, making it easy to compare them...

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