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  • RE: Just curious, what are your SQL pet peeves ?

    Koen Verbeeck (6/10/2014)


    What? You are not by default talking about the Riemann sphere? 😀

    As neither SQL nor T-SQL supoprts a complex number type, it's quite clear that the extended complex...

  • RE: Resource Governor pools

    Dave62 (6/10/2014)


    SQLRNNR (6/10/2014)


    William Vach (6/10/2014)


    Question should have been "In SQL Server 2014, which of these is not a valid resource pool argument?".

    I'd probably go with setting. But the question...

  • RE: Restore

    I too wondered what the question was intended to mean. Out of various options I selected one of the wrong ones - namely, "is online peicemeal restore (as opposed...

  • RE: Just curious, what are your SQL pet peeves ?

    thomashohner (6/7/2014)


    Now I'm thoroughly confused? Why does that work? I thought NULL wasn't equal to anything. :blush:

    Not only is it not equal to anything, it also is not unequal to...

  • RE: Just curious, what are your SQL pet peeves ?

    SQL is delicious (6/6/2014)


    I'm not intending to slag off the British, I don't want anyone to get that impression.

    I don't see how anyone could interpret your previous post...

  • RE: Just curious, what are your SQL pet peeves ?

    Koen Verbeeck (6/6/2014)


    TomThomson (6/6/2014)


    Just a couple of examples: A British colleague who held an A-level in math and a bachelor's in business swore you could, in fact, divide a...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    crookj (6/6/2014)


    WotD - anthropomorphizing

    demonize

  • RE: Just curious, what are your SQL pet peeves ?

    Sean Lange (6/5/2014)


    Luis Cazares (6/5/2014)


    Sean Lange (6/5/2014)


    Luis Cazares (6/5/2014)


    As most things, it depends.

    According to my education, America is a single continent divided in four regions: North, Central, South and Caribbean....

  • RE: Just curious, what are your SQL pet peeves ?

    SQL is delicious (6/5/2014)


    TomThomson (6/5/2014)

    Having worked both in India with Indians and in American with Americans, I have to sort of agree with him - but his comparisons take...

  • RE: Just curious, what are your SQL pet peeves ?

    Ed Wagner (6/5/2014)


    I know this is going to be controversial, but I think that education is a fine thing. However, in the I.T. industry, the best thing it teaches...

  • RE: Just curious, what are your SQL pet peeves ?

    Luis Cazares (6/5/2014)


    Koen Verbeeck (6/5/2014)


    SQL is delicious (6/5/2014)


    ...also labors under the delusion that the American education system is worthless and that our master's level work is the equivalent of junior...

  • RE: Files for memory-optimized tables

    Te trouble with this question is that 2 3 things store the data for these tables: data, delta, and log. If I destroy the log when the data...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    The Dixie Flatline (6/5/2014)


    I thought the piece on commenting a stored procedure was decent. It's hard to argue with:

    1. Don't document anything obvious to other database developer

    2. Document...

  • RE: Just curious, what are your SQL pet peeves ?

    SQL is delicious (6/5/2014)


    I should add that this (foreign) consultant, while reasonably friendly, also labors under the delusion that the American education system is worthless and that our master's level...

  • RE: Just curious, what are your SQL pet peeves ?

    GilaMonster (6/5/2014)


    thomashohner (6/5/2014)


    What is the preference on column aliases ?

    AS. Equals sign is for comparing values or assigning values. 😀

    Tends to be needed for computed columns as well, but in...

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