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  • RE: Nested Temporary Tables

    mtassin (12/16/2010)


    Daniel Bowlin (12/16/2010)


    Interesting question, even more interesting explanation. Hmmm. I guess my take away from this question, is don't use temp tables in stored procedures.

    That would be...

  • RE: Nested Temporary Tables

    Rune Bivrin (12/16/2010)


    BOL doesn't say you'll get a "not defined error". It says the behaviour is undefined.

    I got the column mismatch error same as everyone else when I tried...

  • RE: Nested Temporary Tables

    malleswarareddy_m (12/16/2010)


    I got 10 rows.I am using sqlserver 2008.

    I think the author answer is correct.It s depends

    I would say it really just depends on how well you type example, and...

  • RE: Nested Temporary Tables

    The question clearly states "What will be the results of the following?". Not what does the Books Online say about nested temp tables using the same name.

    Why is the answer...

  • RE: We Are Not a Meritocracy

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/15/2010)


    However most people are hired because the person interviewing them a) likes them and b) doesn't know how to evaluate skills well.

    We need to reverse...

  • RE: T-SQL

    jeff.mason (12/15/2010)


    Boy does that question bring back memories. How many here have the scars of activity in 1998 and 1999 for Y2K? I bet any IT professional who...

  • RE: T-SQL

    Gopinath Srirangan (12/15/2010)


    I apologize to all those who assumed all answers were wrong as time portion was missing.

    As mentioned earlier, the objective of the question was to demonstrate century cutoffs...

  • RE: We Are Not a Meritocracy

    Wow.... Let me start with this.

    The company I currently work for has an 18 person IT Department consisting of 4 phone techs, 5 executives (including the CIO...

  • RE: Nulls

    phil.wood 94423 (12/13/2010)


    SanDroid (12/10/2010)


    phil.wood 94423 (12/10/2010)


    My default schema is not dbo!

    Most QOTD readers that actually run or test the QOTD scripts do so in a default NON...

  • RE: mixed_extent_page_count

    Nils Gustav Stråbø (12/14/2010)


    vk-kirov (12/14/2010)


    The bad news is that, according to BOL, "this view is applicable only to the tempdb database".

    I would not expect much change in SGAM pages in...

  • RE: Shrinking Databases

    TravisDBA (12/13/2010)


    SanDroid (12/13/2010)


    Fixing something that is broken requires skilled resources with real knowledge about developing a solution for an application issue. Removing it only requires removing the code...

  • RE: Printing Lengths

    Rahul The Dba (12/13/2010)


    thanks

    n i promise i will keep ur words in mind, nxt time i post some questions..

    Rahul,

    We are not able to tell who these comments are for if...

  • RE: Shrinking Databases

    Jeff Moden (12/11/2010)


    MS should concentrate on doing more useful things.

    .... Make any of the DBCC functionality more difficult to use? Heh... no way!

    Leave these things alone....

  • RE: Shrinking Databases

    This hole discussion reminds me of a time when I was asked to fix the custom log shipping scripts for a customer. The scripts stopped working sometime after it...

  • RE: Shrinking Databases

    GilaMonster (12/10/2010)


    If what you're trying to do is clean up too many VLFs, then you do (once and only once) want to shrink to 0 and then grow to the...

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