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  • RE: Login options

    Interesting question, but extrremely easy for anyone who knows the syntax for CREATE LOGIN.

    Why have two different wordings of the same wrong answer? (The third and fourth options both...

  • RE: Detaching restrictions

    shane.green 1227 (2/3/2015)


    Good question, although the answer was given away because there was only one answer with "system database". If you had included system database into the list earlier...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (2/2/2015)


    SQLRNNR (2/2/2015)


    Ed Wagner (2/2/2015)


    I only have Standard Edition, but I can't imagine running a production instance on SQL Express. Maybe I'm just spoiled.

    I have to agree. ...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (1/29/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (1/29/2015)


    Here's one for everyone. Does anyone have an environment where Enterprise is the production edition and Standard is the Dev / Test version?

    That's kinda dumb. Instead of...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (1/28/2015)


    Guilty

    Admission?

  • RE: Database Schema

    mister.magoo (1/28/2015)


    I have previously worked with a calendar table that maps out the financial periods to calendar dates, and an exchange rate table that holds spot rates based on currency...

  • RE: ID or Id

    Eric M Russell (1/27/2015)


    andrew gothard (1/27/2015)


    Eric M Russell (1/21/2015)


    ProductID, ProductId, and product_id are all respectable options, so long as it's done consistently.

    However, I would take issue with ID by...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Sean Lange (1/26/2015)


    Oh the cursors are unbelievably stuipd. They are used to count!!!

    set @Counter = 1

    while exists(select * from StupidlyLargeHeap (nolock) where someColume = @Counter) begin

    set...

  • RE: Database Schema

    The thing that makes me thingk neither schema will work is that forex rates dont change nicely at month boundaries. Any organisation that pretends they do will either run...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (1/26/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (1/24/2015)


    Sean Lange (1/23/2015)


    Oh lordy...I just handed a stored proc and was asked advice on how to make it faster. The proc is 3700 lines long, there are...

  • RE: Replication Filters

    Nice straightforward question.

    Half the people who have replied so far think they can use a column filter to select rows, which is a bit startling; and more than four fifths...

  • RE: ID or Id

    ScottPletcher (1/23/2015)


    TomThomson (1/23/2015)


    Sean Lange (1/23/2015)


    Eric M Russell (1/23/2015)


    Date/Time: datetime, offset, varchar?

    There is only one option here. Datetime.

    I suppose if your dBMS is anccient enough that's excusable. But it...

  • RE: COUNT NULLs

    Although I agree with you 100%, Hugo, I thinkyou are wasting your time (in much the same ways as I waste my time when commenting on this nonsense). People...

  • RE: ID or Id

    Sean Lange (1/23/2015)


    Eric M Russell (1/23/2015)


    Date/Time: datetime, offset, varchar?

    There is only one option here. Datetime.

    I suppose if your dBMS is anccient enough that's excusable. But it probably isn't...

  • RE: IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS vs BEGIN TRAN

    Carlo Romagnano (1/22/2015)


    Hugo Kornelis (1/22/2015)


    Carlo Romagnano (1/22/2015)


    Hugo Kornelis (1/22/2015)


    Not too thrilled with this question. Lots of work and thinking for a feature that should have been deprecated and removed twenty...

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