Interesting question. I didn't know the answer, but NULLs seemed the obvious choice as not allowing zeros or blank strings seeed crazy and if any parameters can be hidden...

Ed Wagner (12/12/2014)

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Daisy

Another nice question spoilt by bad wording. Interesting, though, and easy to work out what the third tick had to be although it certainly didn't appear as output as...

Miles Neale (12/10/2014)

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You can in fact get three from this.

1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1x0+1 = 3

Here is how it works:

1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 = 11 and

1X0 + 1 = 1 and

11 and 1 is...

Arthur Olcot (12/11/2014)

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BWFC (12/11/2014)

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The answer might be in the title, but as a newbie I went through my usual process of reading...

antony-688446 (12/10/2014)

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TomThomson (12/10/2014)

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Xavon (12/10/2014)

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paul.knibbs (12/10/2014)

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Emil Bialobrzeski (12/10/2014)

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i saw lots of people on social sites having problems with:

most of the answers was 1. So saying Simple may apply differently...

You asked if you could be...

That's rather easy to do. ...

+1

Xavon (12/10/2014)

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paul.knibbs (12/10/2014)

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Emil Bialobrzeski (12/10/2014)

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i saw lots of people on social sites having problems with:

most of the answers was 1. So saying Simple may apply differently to others...

Hugo Kornelis (12/7/2014)

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There are good use cases for bitwise logic in SQL Server. This is not one of them.

Pretty good trivia question, but readers: please do not ever think about...

Hany Helmy (12/6/2014)

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From the explanation: "SQL Server 2008 optimized mixed extent allocation behavior reducing the need for trace flag 1118 and the contention on SGAM(s)."

So I guess there is no...

The same question (just phrased a little differently) for Monday as we had for Friday seems a bit odd, especially with two points for each one. But it's still...

Fun question - but rather easy for us ancients who programmed with very limited storage half a century ago (as long as we remember that SQL uses ^ for XOR...

Hugo Kornelis (12/4/2014)

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I had to Google as well, but for a...