alexms_2001 (3/13/2012)

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Thanks for clear explanations, but what about the second part of the initial question?

The statement in MSDN, and I quote, is: "... while expressions involving COALESCE with non-null parameters...

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I find it amazing that so many people got this wrong (after all, that cyphertext is at least as big as plaintext is a fundamental consequence of the fact that...

One of the worst worded qurstions ever!

One of the worst worded qurstions ever!

Since for an exact text copy what the XML type regards as insignificant spaces have to be preserved, the XML type won't do.

Since varchar(MAX) can't provide an exact text copy...

I agree with Mark and Nakul. this question and answere dispaly an appalling ignorance of maintenance plans and subplans.

I'm going to chime in at this late stage and disagree with everyone who has commented so far. The given answer is wrong, for a reason that no-one has...

What an awful question.

The syntax errors ensure that the EXECUTE AS statements do nothing but cause error messages, but control ends up in the last batch and the...

Nice straightforward question.

The answers so far (first 486) indicate that a surprisingly high proportion of people are sufficiently deluded to believe than MS chooses parameter names that give a sensible...

GilaMonster (3/13/2012)

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Stefan Krzywicki (3/12/2012)

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I like that with GMail, you can forward all those emails to a single inbox, have it clear where they're addressed to, reply as any of those...

Stefan Krzywicki (3/12/2012)

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GilaMonster (3/12/2012)

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Closed the gmail account the other week. I never wanted it, never intentionally created it, it just appeared one day as part of a google revamp. Two...

Decided a while back that I wouldn't touch a gmail account (Goodle's Ts &Cs and privacy policy were totally unacceptable).

Not sure which of my email "things" counts as...

Method 1 works badly if some articles point to category and others to subcategory; either you give up on database-enforced referential transparency, or you do it with a trigger instead...

Silly name for it, since there's the same amount of daylight whether you have daylight saving time or not.