It can't be 42.

Any Universe in which both the Question and the Answer are known will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. We are...

Not exactly an "oddball interview question", but...

I firmly believe that I blew an interview several years ago because I was not ready to be the first to worship our new...

jfogel (9/10/2012)

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"the person that has a variety of skills in multiple areas with a history of solving problems is desirable"

You would think so. Until they think you are a jack...

I fell into the same trap as tommyh... I should have looked it up.

I agree completely. It is the challenging ones that make a job interesting and therefore worthwhile. I don't think anyone enjoys the day-to-day get-this-done type of stuff.

How disappointing. What a waste of a free trip to SPACE!

Glad I checked out the comments after getting this one wrong. I hate learning things that aren't true. 🙂

I'd stage it into a CHAR column and mung it into one of the accepted date input formats (see http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_datetime.asp#DtFormatsInput) using SUBSTRING() and a CASE expression.

Something along the lines of:

CREATE...

But then what would they publish on TheDailyWTF.com? 😀

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The same thing happens with Capitalism, but we admit it 🙂

I think the problem is that once you take outside investment (whether it is a private investor who buys in for a large share, or going public), you are forced...

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I created a Black Jack game in SQL Server for kicks (could be multiplayer, with computer-controlled dealer, and you could set the number of decks and a few different rule...

Coincidentally, it was that blog post from which I learned this information! 😀