Nice question. Pity it says 2005 onwards instead of 2008 onwards, as none of the answers match 2005 behaviour.

I'm not sure whether to agree with Hugo's interpretation of "correct"...

GilaMonster (11/2/2011)

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If there are ghost records on the pages at time of...

No. I owe my recognition of the word to my ability and willingness, when I was young and foolish, to offend obnoxious idiots.

I was...

Zoramite

Evil Kraig F (11/1/2011)

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+1 I couldn't agree more. I'm losing the...

SQL Kiwi (11/1/2011)

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Not at this stage, at least not by me. I was going to do...

Probably not....

Excellent question.

I wonder if there's another on sql_variant in the pipleline?

SQLRNNR (10/31/2011)

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GilaMonster (10/31/2011)

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SQLRNNR (10/31/2011)

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L' Eomot Inversé (10/31/2011)

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Thomw (10/31/2011)

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Thanks! I noticed that the thread has 'drifted' after my post and have edited to at least not look too lame...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/31/2011)

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A fun question for a holiday. At least it was supposed to be for me, but a little behind.

It's a bit of trivia, totally useless,...

Eric M Russell (10/31/2011)

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As for the remark

EdVassie (10/31/2011)

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"The rise of large-memory and large-corecount servers, coupled with the impending tidal wave of SSD storage, means that good relational design is...

Ernie Schlangen (10/31/2011)

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Can't speak to other people's motivations but I (almost) always look up the answers, even when I'm sure that I know the answer. For me, not only...

Rather than just drifting the thread...

GSquared (10/28/2011)

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I can't speak directly for the Bachelor's vs Master's degree, not having either, but my experience in the field of getting hired leans towards "no matter the degree, actual...

Eric M Russell (10/28/2011)

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If someone has experience performance tuning databases or with disaster recovery, then the first clue is their resume. A candidate will typically provide a succinct overivew of...