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  • RE: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    GilaMonster (10/20/2010)


    paul.knibbs (10/20/2010)


    Maybe, but if you've been asked in an interview to do a single restore, I don't see that it's unreasonable to use the GUI to do it.

    Absolutely. It's...

  • RE: case statement help.

    CELKO (10/29/2011)


    The reason MONEY existed in the original Sybase product was to mimic PICTURE display formats in COBOL. It was assumed that the data, computational and presentation layers were...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (10/28/2011)


    titleist

    srixon

  • RE: Very strange question ... with an unexplainable solution

    I think when you say "SELECT Test1Test2MTest3ABC" you mean "SELECT Test1ABCTest2MTest3"; or maybe the query is wrong and should have ORDER BY in instead of ORDER BY ColumnOrder?

    Anyway, according...

  • RE: case statement help.

    CELKO (10/28/2011)


    1) It is proprietary, so porting it is a pain. It is one of the many

    "Sybase Code Museum" features from decades ago. Remember the early versions of...

  • RE: Query Plan Execution Order

    tilew-948340 (10/27/2011)


    I answered anything because I know nothing about the execution plan but I wanted to see the answer and read the discussion now, so I tried something... and...

  • RE: Getting Started in SQL Server

    I finaly got round to reading this article, after a vey long delay (it's been sitting in mt "to read" stack for the best part of a year). It's...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    SQLRNNR (10/27/2011)


    L' Eomot Inversé (10/27/2011)


    Ninja's_RGR'us (10/26/2011)


    SPOOK.

    SIS

    which route here?

    Big Bro?

    or SSIS?

    Quandry

    Maybe it's easier just to call it MI6 (although it's decades since its name was changed).

  • RE: Spatial Data Types

    Koen Verbeeck (10/27/2011)


    Nice question, but answer number 4 was also incorrect, as both are of the geometry datatype.

    A polygon can also be a geography datatype, but according to MSDN, Linestring...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ninja's_RGR'us (10/26/2011)


    SPOOK.

    SIS

  • RE: Query Plan Execution Order

    Good question.

    I got it wrong, of course. 😀 But no complaints, other than about the mistreatment of English grammar (iterators don't execute).

    Probably because I answered the wrong the question....

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Do we have a would-be Celko here? A somewhat style-less and inept one, perhaps, but...

  • RE: Spatial Data Types

    Richard Warr (10/26/2011)


    Interestingly there are now 39% incorrect answers but only 31% of people picked the wrong answer. I'm assuming that means that 8% chose less than three answers.

    The missing...

  • RE: Spatial Data Types

    Nice question, thanks.

  • RE: The HR Sorecard

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/25/2011)


    richj-826679 (10/25/2011)


    Human Resource departments are similar to IT departments in that both of them are a cost to the organization without generating revenue

    How many companies...

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