Oh dear! how to miss the point! 😀

(Hint: it is s the 6th letter of february)

Steady on Tom - what's the point in Tar and Feathering an empty corpse? 🙂

Sorry major - I meant full (insert local language here) spelling of the month, not an abreviation such as FEB; my bad!

Thanks for pointing that out. 🙂

How many pages will...

Post multiple times = multiple points :w00t:

(damn you brain - stop giving away the secrets)

--Shaun

Doh! datename - look up the function dude!

takes the raw data and uses the full string of the name so when your field has a datetime type

datename(m, datetime_field) gives the...

And so it continues.... 😉

Tell us another joke major. 😀

--Shaun

Steve:

Definition of EB -

EB - Europa Barbarorum - excellent historically accurate mod for SEGA/The Creative Assembly's most awsome game Rome Total War. 😀

Aleksandr Furman:

How is that funny?

Is that not the truth? 😉

Like the one told to me by an accountant;

"There are three types of accountant in this world, those who can...

Education is the goal, entertainment is the medium 😀

--Shaun

Hugo:

That is exactly why I've invented the ShaunyByte!:D

A single BS is all you need, no matter how much data you have.

the expanding BS is given an order to denote how...

Total Bull!

1024^8 != 10^24

1000^8 != 2^80

Store everything in the universe? Doubting Dog says - 'I doubt it!':P

Hey I've invented the 'ShaunyByte' its 2^(80 + an number incrementing as required) and...

Gene none of the anwers mentions a repeated column name.

Please I'm tired of this debate. 😉

--Shaun (who I am not Sean)

Ravi

oh dear!

'perfectly' ...er try again please!

your results do not fit any of the possible answers.:)

please read the preceeding 10 pages to learn why:P

--Shaun

For the last time, yeah right!:)

SQL2000/SQL2005(Mode 80) do not 'fail/give an error response', but give a result which matches none of the answers to the question.

Therefore they are not applicable....

Loner - RBAR - see Jeff's signature 🙂

All about evil cursors/triangular joins etc. in SQL