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  • RE: DBCC CHECKIDENT

    Jon Summers (1/3/2014)


    Surely the first reseed statement fails because of the use of 'RESEED' as a quoted string and not a keyword?

    No, either is allowed. Try it and...

  • RE: predict the output

    Hugo Kornelis (12/30/2013)


    Probable reasons for this decision:

    1. Maybe the IDENTITY code is not nice modularized, but spread out throughout the other code, and changing it is hard and risky. Too...

  • RE: T-SQL Arithmetic and Geometric Sequence (Series)

    Sรธren (12/16/2013)


    a ) is missing in the line (at the end).

    I'm most disappointed that there aren't already several pages of identical posts moaning about that and demanding that some points...

  • RE: Order My Data

    but no points adjustment - I demand back the points I've had forcibly taken from me!

    ๐Ÿ˜‰

  • RE: Order My Data

    rmunwin (12/2/2013)


    Yes order by is the only truly safe way to do this but there are other methods if I recall. Please set me straight if I'm wrong though.

    There are...

  • RE: Order My Data

    Sadly all those who simply read the explanation and never visit the discussion forum will now go away with false beliefs, and QotD will have worsened understanding rather than increasing...

  • RE: COUNT, COALESCE, ISNULL, DISTINCT

    Hugo Kornelis (11/9/2013)


    On my system NAME and Name are two different columns, because the server collation is case sensitive.

    Really surprised nobody else has picked up on this, instead questioning the...

  • RE: DATE Conversion and Format

    steve.jacobs (10/30/2013)


    I believe in the basics and you would be very surprised as to how many "experienced" DBAs (Logical and\or Physical) I know got this one wrong.

    I'm not surprised. How...

  • RE: SQL Server 2012 service accounts

    "Exceptions are ..."

    So the correct answer is actually "it depends"?

  • RE: Date Functions

    For me, a better answer is to subtract one from the first day of the next month, as this method will allow the same code to be run on other...

  • RE: ISNUMERIC(varchar)

    ronmoses (10/15/2013)


    I've yet to discover what numeric type a non-breaking space can be converted to

    Most of them I'd have thought, on the basis that in some locales a space is...

  • RE: Try.. Catch..

    Guessed right, as it would have been a pretty pointless question if the answer had been Yes!

  • RE: Database permissions

    Putting this in the category "ALTER ROLE" was a bit of a giveaway!

  • RE: T-SQL counts

    Jeff Moden (10/1/2013)


    Actually, this is going to cause a mess for me when we upgrade from 2005 because NULL is considered to be a DISTINCT value.

    I suspect you may be...

  • RE: Extended Procs

    I guessed right, on the basis that very little deprecated functionality ever seems to get removed.

    Someone will now post a massive list to prove me wrong ๐Ÿ˜€

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