Nice straightforward question.

Surprised it's 3 points, though; it's rather easy. The description of the data in the table (there are rows with same values for these...

mtassin (11/1/2012)

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What's interesting for me is that the query from the original question returns 120 rows.

select CHAR(I),I from Tally

where char(I) between '0' and 'Z'...

Jeff Moden (11/1/2012)

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Gosh. I would hope that people know that it's not a Democracy. It's a Republic (well, it's supposed to be... I think "plutocracy" is probably more...

SQL Kiwi (11/1/2012)

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The specific answer isn't useful, but the process of writing a query to answer it surely could be. I had no idea of the correct answer so...

Meow Now (10/31/2012)

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I stumbled across Freedman's explanation in my search on the subject and was thrown by the options as well. Either way, I selected the UPDATE choice as the...

This probably a pointless argumnent, because it isn't about anything technical, just about historical and terminological accuracy, and it does appear that quite a few people have adopted historically inaccurate...

craig 81366 (10/31/2012)

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GilaMonster (10/31/2012)

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No, the Halloween problem is exclusively for updates. You can't...

Nice question.

I wonder how many people here ever used System R. I didn't, for one.

Now, was it Halloween 1976 or Halloween 1977 when it acquired its name...

Nice to see a question about a new feature in sql 2012.

Would have been a good question except for the ambiguities introduced by hving the result column that should have...

I (installed and) ran SUPERAntiSpyware. It told me "I've found three things infected; I won't tell you what with, and I won't tell you which things. Maybe you...

Stefan Krzywicki (10/29/2012)

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SQLRNNR (10/29/2012)

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Revenant (10/29/2012)

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Koen Verbeeck (10/29/2012)

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They can be pretty nasty.

Most of them disable...

Mostly not. But some of them, yes.

WayneS (10/29/2012)

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Geez Tom, that's quite a bit of stuff you went through - hope I never have to do something like this. Sure am glad that you got it all...

Good question, but as has already been pointed out the explanation is wrong. The process of determining syntactic structure and deciding whether it's valid or not is parsing, not...

MJ tea