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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jan Van der Eecken (6/14/2013)


    dwain.c (6/13/2013)


    Sean Lange (6/13/2013)


    WayneS (6/13/2013)


    dwain.c (6/12/2013)


    I can only imagine what it must be like to have SQL Server running in some non-English language. MS probably...

  • RE: Alias Usage

    Primo Dang (6/24/2013)


    Nice number crunching there, Tom! Especially impressive if you did you it all in your head and were as fast as it appears to someone who's reading the...

  • RE: Temp Tables revisited

    Paul White (6/24/2013)


    sharath.chalamgari (6/24/2013)


    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295305

    The author should have included that reference in the explanation instead of guessing at how parsing works (and getting it wrong).

    + rather more than just 1

  • RE: T SQL Update statement that is set based

    Trying to construct the date by concatenating three casts from int to nvarchar() is likely to be somewhat error-prone, and even if you get it right (eliminating spaces, ensuring month...

  • RE: Lock Escalation Limit

    I don't much like the question, because the correct answer is (row locks are never escalated to page locks) is not available as an option. Of course it's easy...

  • RE: IFF - 1

    Hugo Kornelis (6/19/2013)


    sqlnaive (6/19/2013)


    In a normal scenario it should be considered as the default behaviour for the question which is CI (and not CS).

    I disagree, and I'll tell you why.

    In...

  • RE: SQL CHOOSE

    Hugo Kornelis (6/19/2013)


    or run it as is on a server that was installed with default options on a British OS

    We can't do that, as there is no British OS which...

  • RE: ALL clause in SQL Server

    sknox (6/18/2013)


    [Logically = ANY should always be FALSE in this case, because there's nothing to equal. Same with = ALL, right? Well...

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    Can anyone explain the results?

    It's quite straightforward. ALL...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (6/17/2013)


    pickle

    serialization

  • RE: ALL clause in SQL Server

    Hugo Kornelis (6/18/2013)


    hillsl (6/18/2013)


    I got it wrong because the question in the emailed newsletter is what I was answering, and in the newsletter the sub-select only has one column, and...

  • RE: Alias Usage

    Mike Dougherty-384281 (6/17/2013)


    I assumed "run successfully" meant "returns what it looks like it should" rather than "without error"

    That's what I hope a tester/QA man verifying that SQL Server is doing...

  • RE: The Control Poll

    I've used a variety of version control systems over the years, including a couple of home-rolled ones back in the days when there were no useful version control systems. ...

  • RE: Do You Want a Meritocracy at Work?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/17/2013)


    Far too many people are not self aware with their careers. They often think they've gained 10 years of experience in a job when they've...

  • RE: Alias Usage

    Richard Warr (6/17/2013)


    I wonder how 28 % got it wrong...

    As only 6% selected the wrong answer it must be down to not selecting three options. If you don't read the...

  • RE: Simple Program

    basically this chunk of code

    SELECT @Vol = Volume FROM @TestTable

    IF @VOL > 0

    INSERT INTO @TestTable (Type)

    VALUES('OK')

    ELSE

    INSERT INTO @TestTable (Type)

    VALUES('NOTOK')

    will insert one row into @TestTable, which will have NULL in the...

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