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  • RE: Shrink Database

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/10/2011)


    Excellent question, Ron. I've used this type of demo in presentations before.

    Did you use a script that gave the wrong result? 😛 😉

  • RE: Shrink Database

    O yeah.. Since over 77% of those that answered today obviously had the same issue with the same mistake in the script I am sure we would all like our...

  • RE: Shrink Database

    :sick:This is ABSOLUTELY a depends trick question. It ABSOLUTELY depends on if you correct the error in the script that was listed. Also your DB settings change the results. ...

  • RE: Speeding Up Database Access Part 3 - Fixing Missing Indexes

    GilaMonster (8/2/2011)


    Personally I prefer clustered index to organise the table and nonclustered indexes for data access.

    Shameless plugging of my own article... http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/68563/

    No shame in pointing out the truth when...

  • RE: Page Compression in Heaps

    SQLBalls (8/9/2011)


    Sorry about that guys,This is my first Published Question, I'll make sure to write in a Check All that Apply next time!

    You did fine. No need to apologize.

    Check...

  • RE: Page Compression in Heaps

    Nice question. Really liked the "Trick Question" part since this was the exact oposite of a trick question.

  • RE: How well do you know MAX?

    Great Question. Saw that your NOT IN had only one result and NOT 😉 two right away.

  • RE: How well do you know MAX?

    Tom.Thomson (8/5/2011)


    john.arnott (8/5/2011)


    Cliff Jones (8/5/2011)


    I thought this question was about using approximate data types so got it right for the wrong reason.

    I would hope that most viewers of this understand...

  • RE: Niagara Falls

    SQLkiwi (8/4/2011)


    SanDroid (8/4/2011)


    I just clicked it the link again on two systems and got the Connect page for this issue. Could it be the https part that is not...

  • RE: IsNumeric with NULL and Empty String

    SQLkiwi (8/4/2011)


    SanDroid (8/4/2011)


    "Code to enforce Business Rules should not be in SQL!"

    Some days, I would go further:

    "Code to enforce Business Rules should not be in SQL!"

    Nice... 😛

  • RE: Niagara Falls

    SQLkiwi (8/4/2011)


    SanDroid (8/4/2011)


    Several of you seem to agree that this is a bug that they can reproduce.

    However the count of user that can re-create and users that think...

  • RE: IsNumeric with NULL and Empty String

    SQLkiwi (8/4/2011)


    sknox (8/4/2011)


    While it's in many ways better than IsNumeric, TRY_CONVERT does have some problems.

    Oddly enough, this is exactly the stance I took a week or so ago in a...

  • RE: IsNumeric with NULL and Empty String

    Tom.Thomson (8/4/2011)


    just yet another case where (T-)SQL gets it wrong with NULL. But then IsNumeric is such an awful function anyway that that's teh least of its worries...

  • RE: IsNumeric with NULL and Empty String

    Daniel Bowlin (8/4/2011)


    Implicit conversion is one of those issues, where if you know it, you just know. If you don't know it, the result is very unexpected. I...

  • RE: IsNumeric with NULL and Empty String

    Nice question. Simple and makes a good point on Conversions.

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