Nice straightforward question, clearly worded, no tricks.

It's a pity so many who can't be bothered to read the question think that that's a fault in the question instead of...

dwain.c (7/16/2012)

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I'm a little surprised at the suggestion to use a Normal distribution as an approximation. I always thought the exponential distribution was closer, however I say this without...

Jack Corbett (7/10/2012)

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Congrats. I'm not surprised...

dwain.c (7/8/2012)

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This is a textbook example of a binomial probability distribution where (p) the probability of the toast falling butter side down is 80% and the probability that it will...

Nice article. It's great to see some real maths in SQL.

For most practical cases, there's a reasonable way of getting a Poisson distributed random variable; not if ? is...

Brandie Tarvin (7/2/2012)

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Jeff Moden (7/2/2012)

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I have the same ill feelings towards the cloud. I don't know who the driver really is or whether or not they even know which...

Thanks to "El" Jerry, Jason, Lynn, Paul, Stefan, Gianluca, Bex, Grant, Brandie, Greg, Kiara, Revenant, Sean, Craig, Rodders, Dwain, Ray, Jeff, Jack, Wayne, Jan, and Gus for prayers and/or...

The thread seems very quiet. I've been away three days and there are only 62 new posts on it.

But I may not find the energy to...

I knew that repair_fast no longer worked, but guessed wrong that it would fail with an error rather than just being ignored. I hate it when MS do this...

Brandie Tarvin (6/15/2012)

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You know, it's a really sad state of affairs when the actions of a few bad posters start giving us enough of a reputation that someone has to...

Apologies to everyone for the silly syntax error.

I'll ask Steve to correct the question.

rhapsody

I'd rather have a Liszt rhapsody than a Chopin mazurka, and I'm more fond of Sonatas...

Very good question.

The error rate so far (86% - 241 out of 280) is amazing. Most of those errors were the same wrong answer, there appears to a widely...

Koen Verbeeck (6/13/2012)

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L' Eomot Inversé (6/13/2012)

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Interesting question. And straightforward.

I guess calling it a .ispac file instead of a .zip file makes sense if you want to know from the...

Very good question.

I don't know why people are fussing so much about the answer format; it did put me of at first, made me leave the question for when I...