Jamie Longstreet-481950 (9/26/2008)

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The concepts behind the spatial indexes are, by far, one of the most interesting aspects of 2008 SQL queries. I'm not sure it deserves three points, but...

Nice straightforward question and answer.

Of course the SQL 2008 terminology is a bit mixed - although it's clear enough that "stopword" and "stoplist" are the preferred terms, the documentation for...

I learnt zilch from the explanation; the BoL article referenced doesn't seem to contain any statement supporting the answer it is supposed to support, which is irritating. The discussion...

Brandie Tarvin (12/17/2010)

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Tom.Thomson (12/16/2010)

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And on coalesce, you were just making yourself look silly. Don't let the fact that Celko often (usually?) writes in online fora as an obnoxious ***...

Nice simple question.

The wrong answer rate suggests that even something as straightforward as this has some instructional value.

That's a wonderful set of stuff. Thanks, Paul.

yes, that's it exactly.

Paul White NZ (12/15/2010)

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Perhaps it would be nice if SQL Server printed a warning message in the second case. My understanding is that this is technically impossible to do...

I saw this after Steve had modified it. I was very confused by the "correct anser" answer, since I thought the option immediately before it was the correct answer....

Thanks for teh question. It made me look in BoL, which some say is cheating (and I say is learning).

Nils Gustav Stråbø (12/9/2010)

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I don't like questions like this, and not because I got it wrong.

It teaches me nothing about Sql Server or T-SQL (except debugging peculiar T-SQL), and to...

nice clear unambiguous question. Thanks.

Brandie Tarvin (12/15/2010)

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Not believing I'm actually going to get an answer to the question I posted on the thread Wayne just linked, I'm going to ask the question here.

Has anyone...

WayneS (12/15/2010)

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We're planning to reschedule it for the LV UG in January - they meet at 6:30PM PST - it will be done via LiveMeeting - is that something that...

It's not often I...