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  • RE: Interesting Data Centers

    Gary Varga (2/22/2016)

    Given that there are even cloud sandboxes for most things now it does beg the question why anyone would not use cloud hosts. There are issues that may...

    February 27, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    #1861649

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jack Corbett (2/27/2016)

    Ed Wagner (2/27/2016)

    Having recently been on the interviewing end of dealing with recruiters I can say that modifying a resume is a common practice. We...

    February 27, 2016 at 3:02 pm

    #1861648

  • RE: CAST tinyint to nvarchar

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/26/2016)

    BOL does note this will return an error, but the "E" in the chart is very misleading. I'd say this is one of the poorer...

    February 26, 2016 at 10:55 am

    #1861483

  • RE: Automatic update of outdated statistics

    Well, I got it wrong. But my answer was just a guess, based on how I expect things to work, not a real answer based on actual measurement.

    But my...

    February 26, 2016 at 10:35 am

    #1861476

  • RE: CHECKING specific values

    Sean Lange (2/23/2016)

    I am shocked at how many people (9% at time of this post) said there would be 4 rows. :w00t:

    Excellent question Steve.

    I'm not shocked; several people will be...

    February 26, 2016 at 8:10 am

    #1861405

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (2/22/2016)

    No need to pile on but here's another example of a "DBA" like the ones I've been interviewing. I wonder if he knows how to get the...

    February 23, 2016 at 6:08 am

    #1860373

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Ed Wagner (2/19/2016)

    TomThomson (2/19/2016)

    ZZartin (2/19/2016)

    Driver

    road hog

    Harley

    Davidson

    February 20, 2016 at 11:06 am

    #1859969

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Luis Cazares (2/19/2016)

    Hugo Kornelis (2/19/2016)

    Jeff Moden (2/19/2016)

    In that same vein, I also won't work for a company that requires you to pass an "intelligence test" or "personality test". They...

    February 19, 2016 at 1:43 pm

    #1859934

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (2/19/2016)

    jasona.work (2/19/2016)

    Jeff Moden (2/19/2016)

    SQLRNNR (2/19/2016)

    BL0B_EATER (2/19/2016)

    GilaMonster (2/19/2016)

    Google down? 😉

    First search results: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stump-the-chump.asp

    Yup I should know better! anyways yeah that would make for an awkward interview.

    Yeah. They are trying to...

    February 19, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    #1859933

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    ZZartin (2/19/2016)

    djj (2/19/2016)

    Luis Cazares (2/19/2016)

    crookj (2/19/2016)

    Revenant (2/19/2016)

    ThomasRushton (2/19/2016)

    DonlSimpson (2/19/2016)

    ThomasRushton (2/19/2016)

    Stuart Davies (2/19/2016)

    SQLRNNR (2/19/2016)

    mussels

    COCKLES

    Wombles

    Tobermory

    Harbour

    Light

    Speed

    Force

    Mass

    Driver

    road hog

    February 19, 2016 at 12:26 pm

    #1859920

  • RE: The Path

    Nice question, but ambiguous wording in the explanation - "up to " can mean either "up to and including" or "up to but not including ".

    Sometimes the context...

    February 19, 2016 at 5:23 am

    #1859775

  • RE: Should Production Databases Be in a VCS?

    peter-757102 (2/18/2016)

    I am surely controversial in my opinions about version control systems here and that is fine by me.

    Let me start with this. I consider complete models, including the...

    February 18, 2016 at 3:04 pm

    #1859710

  • RE: The RPO

    Sean Lange (2/12/2016)

    Luis Cazares (2/12/2016)

    djj (2/12/2016)

    sestell1 (2/12/2016)

    I was confused by the transaction logs being "from midnight on". What is that relative to? :angry:

    My comment also. I was...

    February 18, 2016 at 2:19 pm

    #1859699

  • RE: T-SQL COALESCE

    Revenant (2/16/2016)

    DonlSimpson (2/16/2016)

    Interesting to note that:

    SELECT isnull (' ', GETDATE())

    returns a blank string.

    This is one of the reasons I don't like letting sql do implicit conversions for me.

    The same....

    February 16, 2016 at 1:32 pm

    #1859100

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (2/16/2016)

    Hugo Kornelis (2/16/2016)

    Oh, I am not laughing. Not at all. I am concerned and bewildered. Mostly concerned.

    Likewise. With a side of terrified that one of the buffoons might actually...

    February 16, 2016 at 12:47 pm

    #1859079

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