Got it right only because I've been paying attention. And because I answered it without consulting BOL!! 😉

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/30/2014)

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Thomas Abraham (5/30/2014)

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If you are afraid of taking time away from work (using words like 'nervous' and 'scary'), perhaps you derive too much of your...

If you are afraid of taking time away from work (using words like 'nervous' and 'scary'), perhaps you derive too much of your own sense of worth from your job?...

Nice question. Looks like a function I would find useful, if I ever get to work on SQL Server 2012.

Raghavendra Mudugal (5/19/2014)

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Thank you for the post, free_mascot, good one.

Actually in real I have no idea how this works, probably wouldn't get a chance to see it... but on the...

Got it write by ignoring what I knew to be right and going with the wrong documentation. :hehe:

TomThomson (5/15/2014)

No, I wont believe 16 and certainly not 6. 5 SQL Server professionals will never all agree on a compromise solution, so the correct answer is not 32, and...

Great question, as usual from Andy. Thanks! Went for what seems to be the popular answer (permissions in offline DB's) after initially thinking permissions granted was the answer.

I think Andy...

Koen Verbeeck (5/13/2014)

I wish I had you as a professor back then.

We also used Dates theory book, but we went really deep in the theoretical relation calculus, which is kinda...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/13/2014)

That's interesting. however, do we want the first or last year? When I started in CS, the first year was hard, really hard with theory...

Gary Varga (5/13/2014)

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I agree with almost all of what Thomas Abraham says except:

Thomas Abraham (5/13/2014)

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...At any rate, I think people DO need to learn the theory. You won't use it...

Gary Varga (5/13/2014)

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I think that the problem is twofold:

1) Graduates with Computer Science degrees have little understanding of applying what they have been taught in the real world.

2) Non-Computer Science...

Nice question. Had to do the research, as never had a chance to use them. I can see how the could be used. But doubt I'll ever have any need...

Thanks for the great start to the week! Enjoyed the question.

I remember when fellow grad students (in 1993) looked down at me because I was focusing on RDBMS's, while they were all gaga for Object-Oriented DBMS's. Relational systems were so...