This question has a serious error. I've asked Steve to correct it. I hope he will award back points to anyone who was caught by the error (only...

Yet another neat publicity stunt by Apple. I guess they can afford to pay Fox for the publicity because without that sort of rubbish publicity there products would be rather...

GilaMonster (7/2/2015)

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Informal survey before I make a fool of myself in an article (again)

Do you get the feeling that IT people, especially ones at the top-end of the field, are...

David.Poole (7/2/2015)

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I heard an IT director say that what you learn in the 1st year of a CS degree is obsolete by the time you get to the end of...

The really sensible comments here are those from Gail and Jeff (that's pretty much as usual).

I've usually limited myself to things like emailing my personal email address to...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/1/2015)

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ZZartin (7/1/2015)

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A math degree is not job training to be an accountant and a CS degree shouldn't be thought of as job training to be...

Eric M Russell (7/1/2015)

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It's no wonder that many IT folks don't have a degree; we think like engineers, and the engineer aspect of our personality tells us that we can...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/1/2015)

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Meet some...

Nice question - made me read some new documentation.

Interesting new feature, but rather a boring one. It's a pity they've only done the really pedestrian option - work on...

None of the answer options is actually right - SMO in SQLServer 2005 stood for SQL Server Management Objects. Of course that makes it easy to chose SQL Management...

eccentricDBA (7/1/2015)

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Eirikur Eiriksson (7/1/2015)

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jasona.work (7/1/2015)

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DonlSimpson (7/1/2015)

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Ed Wagner (7/1/2015)

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djj (7/1/2015)

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psingla (7/1/2015)

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Ed Wagner (7/1/2015)

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BL0B_EATER (7/1/2015)

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Ed Wagner (6/30/2015)

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Eirikur Eiriksson (6/30/2015)

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crookj (6/30/2015)

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Sergeant (Sorry - really...

Toreador (7/1/2015)

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Well English clearly isn't the poster's first language, but I'd have hoped the wording could have been changed by whoever approved the question! It was a bit of a...

Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (7/1/2015)

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NULL != NULL or anything else.

NULL is actually a reflection of the state of the field, i.e. there is no value assigned to...

sknox (6/29/2015)

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TomThomson (6/29/2015)

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For example CHECKSUM(*) is nondeterministic, despite the fact that it will always return the same value whenever called unless the state of the database has changed...

It is indeed a rather vague question. That doesn't mean it's a bad question, though - it encourages us to think and to use our imaginations.

I got...