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  • RE: Lock Escalation

    SanDroid (5/25/2011)


    GilaMonster (5/25/2011)


    If the table is partitioned, lock escalation will be allowed to partition. After the lock is escalated to the partition level, the lock will not be escalated later...

  • RE: Lock Escalation

    michael.kaufmann (5/25/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (5/25/2011)


    Nice question.

    But "partition" locks? Surely Heap locks, B-Tree locks (HoBT locks for short)? I don't think the term "partition lock" occurs anywhere in BoL...

  • RE: Lock Escalation

    Nice question.

    But "partition" locks? Surely Heap locks, B-Tree locks (HoBT locks for short)? I don't think the term "partition lock" occurs anywhere in BoL for SQL...

  • RE: STUFF Function

    SanDroid (5/24/2011)


    Tom.Thomson (5/18/2011)


    SanDroid (5/18/2011)


    Carlton Leach (5/18/2011)


    Another bug vote here, and another wrong answer for me.

    NULL is NULL...fullstop. You never know what NULL is so regardless if you insert, concatenate, stick...

  • RE: Memory

    forsqlserver (5/24/2011)


    What is the difference between query plans and compiled batch plans?

    "query plans" includes compiled stored procedure plans as well as compiled batch plans.

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    crookj (5/23/2011)


    Ray K (5/23/2011)


    WOTD: WOTD.

    (Yes, in other words, WOTD is today's WOTD!)

    WOTD: QOTD 😀

    Joe

    QOTD: Is QOTD a WORD as in WOTD?

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (5/23/2011)


    GilaMonster (5/23/2011)


    Jack Corbett (5/23/2011)


    Just because I've touched it doesn't mean I'm an expert.

    It doesn't? Really?

    😉

    Wish more people thought that way.

    No experts are those who have heard of...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Greg Edwards-268690 (5/23/2011)


    If you want feedback, I could run this by a coworker or two.

    Kind of applies to our job, building the data warehouse. 🙂

    Or that's the theory....

    If you...

  • RE: Memory

    Nice question.

    But it could have been turned into a real nightmare by having another option "plan cache" as (here) and still requiring a single answer. Or into an even...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Yes, true-to-life always makes the best humour.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jan Van der Eecken (5/22/2011)


    @tom, how is your article (series) on Normalization going?

    I sent the first one to Steve a while back, waiting for feedback - 1NF is the...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/20/2011)


    I need to schedule the two BI ones. Perferably before July when the price goes up. Going to write them cold, no studying. Will be fun, as I barely...

  • RE: Filestream

    Nice question; the 8.3 naming red herring made me think hard.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    mister.magoo (5/19/2011)


    [rant]

    This takes the biscuit http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1112017.aspx

    [/rant]

    Having read that, I'm tempted to belive that he was intending to take something else as well as the biscuit.

  • RE: Plans

    Another nice straightforward one.

    Two points seems a lot for this one, though.

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