GRE (Gethyn Ellis) (1/19/2011)

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You can't control it directly, But if you follow Kimberely's blog post and Steve's advice , and say growth your transaction log by increments of 8GB, that...

Days are sunny but short. Temperature about 14C (57F) at 7am and the same late evening, rising to between...

Nice question, that made me think. I struggled for a while to remember whether there was anything special about tempdb that would preclude chckdb, and then decided that I...

Quite so.

Nice simple thing. I spent some time looking for the catch though, because strictly speaking none of the answers is correct, since neither of the selects has any outcome...

Chad Crawford (1/18/2011)

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The easiest way I've found to explain it is to figure out how you can lose. There are three choices, right?

If you've picked the door with...

Chad Crawford (1/18/2011)

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Since my degree in Stats was hammered earlier today, here's a classic:

You are on a game show. There are three doors, behind one of them is...

Nice easy question, nice clean answer.

But why on earth is it worth 2 points?

CELKO (1/14/2011)

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Tom: MERGE gives an error because it has to by definition. Values in a column are scalars; this is part of First Normal Form. I cannot put multiple scalars...

dance 😀

CirquedeSQLeil (1/13/2011)

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Not impressed with 2010 or 2007. They can both...

OK, so Merge gives an error message, which is certainly a good thing (it surprised me, because reading the MS documentation I didn't spot that; but with hindsight it doesn't...

Whose idea of developer ease of...

GSquared (1/13/2011)

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Jeff Moden (1/12/2011)

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I don't care...

Decaffeinate