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  • RE: Question of the Day for 20 Jun 2005

    Well, I ticked the least wrong answer and got a point.

    Archiving to a separate system may well be overkill, and may damage the performance quite seriously when those rare queries...

    April 27, 2010 at 1:46 am

    #1158006

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Adam Machanic (4/26/2010)

    Tom.Thomson (4/26/2010)

    I think maybe you're overlooking a couple of things: (1) there are 4 times as many people in India as there are in the USA, so if...

    April 26, 2010 at 9:24 pm

    #1157963

  • RE: Question of the Day for 20 Apr 2005

    Well, it was pretty obvious what the author thought was the first rule, so I got my point. But I believe the right answer isn't actually in the list...

    April 26, 2010 at 8:31 pm

    #1157961

  • RE: Question of the Day for 16 Mar 2005

    I think the suggested answer is the wrong way to do it. The sensible thing to do is either use a thread and communicate by messaging (have that thread...

    April 26, 2010 at 8:20 pm

    #1157959

  • RE: Defensive Programming

    Paul White NZ (4/26/2010)

    +1. I didn't even bother to Google - I waited for the correct answer to be mailed to me today 😉

    I was surprised by the number...

    April 26, 2010 at 7:33 pm

    #1157954

  • RE: Optimising Server-Side Paging - Part I

    A brilliant article. Keep it up!

    April 26, 2010 at 7:08 pm

    #1157952

  • RE: Minimal Meetings

    Jeff Moden (4/24/2010)

    Heh... supposed time wasted in meetings is the least of my worries. A bazillion emails and IM's are a total waste of time compared to the productive...

    April 26, 2010 at 6:49 pm

    #1157951

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Adam Machanic (4/26/2010)

    That said, I do see a plagiarism pattern from that part of the world, and it's quite bothersome when so much of this kind of activity occurs from...

    April 26, 2010 at 5:18 pm

    #1157939

  • RE: Question of the Day for 11 Feb 2005

    Amit-695544 (4/4/2008)

    hi friends !!

    I am sorry but is this a bug, MS's overesmartness of type conversion or somthing logical thing. :w00t:

    Please be clear.

    Thanks .

    My take is that MS decided to...

    April 25, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    #1157422

  • RE: Question of the Day for 04 Feb 2005

    Adam Machanic (2/4/2005)

    Accident is difficult to know, but it's certainly NOT DOCUMENTED and NOT SUPPORTED. However, a member of the SQL Server team has told me that the feature...

    April 25, 2010 at 2:02 pm

    #1157419

  • RE: Question of the Day for 04 Feb 2005

    Matt Marston (2/4/2005)

    <FONT color=#111111>Wouldn't the correct answer be </FONT><FONT color=#00008b>'This is an interesting table ' </FONT><FONT color=#111111>(with an extra space on the end)? </FONT>

    Yes.

    April 25, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    #1157418

  • RE: Question of the Day for 17 Dec 2004

    Adam Machanic (12/17/2004)

    More questions like this, please! They really show off that the author....

    print convert(varchar(3), 0x697320) +

    convert(varchar(5), 0x747279696E) +

    convert(varchar(1), 0x67) +

    convert(varchar(7), 0x20746F206D616B) +

    convert(varchar(4), 0x65206869) +

    convert(varchar(3), 0x6D7365) +

    convert(varchar(8), 0x6C66207365656D20) +

    convert(varchar(1),...

    April 25, 2010 at 11:28 am

    #1157413

  • RE: Question of the Day for 30 Dec 2004

    CirquedeSQLeil (12/13/2009)

    Doh - version based question where the results change.

    SSMS 2005 and 2008 both gave me 3.4

    Perhaps at the date the question was set it was reasonable to assume sql...

    April 25, 2010 at 11:16 am

    #1157410

  • RE: Question of the Day for 17 Nov 2004

    Steve Jones - Editor (11/18/2004)

    I received this as a post with a long explanation of why it didn't work. It seemed reasonable to me and honestly I didn't setup a...

    April 25, 2010 at 10:34 am

    #1157406

  • RE: SQL Server Stumpers, Vol.5

    Steve Jones - Editor (10/10/2009)

    Comments posted to this topic are about the item <A HREF="/articles/books/67141/">SQL Server Stumpers, Vol.5</A>

    Are vols 1 to 4 still around?

    April 25, 2010 at 10:02 am

    #1157404

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