Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/9/2011)

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Glad you liked it. Not sure you can read much into the distribution since it might be a guess for many of the correct answers....

A really good question. The discussion has taught me several things.

Kit G (6/9/2011)

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GilaMonster (6/9/2011)

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Stefan Krzywicki (6/9/2011)

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I think I'd be more worried about someone with a gladius on a subway car. A claymore is a lot of steel in a confined...

Surely everyone can discern that they belong on the feet? 😛

Spelling problem...

Is that our |MCITP|OCP|OCE|SCJP|IBMCDB| friend?

I just discovered...

Kit G (6/8/2011)

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Wearing boots with a kilt isn't a problem (as long as we have socks). But sandals and a kilt? Perhaps... maybe... in a Roman Legionaire kind...

It's a nice question now that it says "count(*)". It wasn't really all that bad before, just a bit disconcerting.

GSquared (6/7/2011)

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Climate?

We are talking about Seattle, right? And not during July/August?

It'll be rainy and gray. Seattlites don't tan, we rust. The city flower is mildew, the city...

jcrawf02 (6/3/2011)

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GSquared (6/3/2011)

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Jim Murphy (6/3/2011)

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Bob - this is an old...

Nice question.

It's a bit worrying that 50% of answers included "resource cost plans"; maybe even more worrying that 14% failed to include "query plan".

Ceratorhine

GilaMonster (6/3/2011)

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It's not new in 2008. SQL 2000 had ghost records, my guess SQL 7 too since it was...

I don't like this shiny new terminology introduced for SQL 2008.

Paul R's blog entry looks wrong. It says "The ghost cleanup task can't physically delete the ghost records until after...

izblank (6/1/2011)

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Tom.Thomson (6/1/2011)

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izblank (6/1/2011)

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Or, suppose you need to calculate sum of squares of consecutive integers. You could do it in a loop, or you could expand your Tally...