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  • RE: Date add with Different DataType

    Richard Warr (6/21/2013)it's obvious that the second error is caused by something outside the scope of the question

    obvious after reading the answer anyway.

    luckily I guessed it was yet another...

  • RE: ALL clause in SQL Server

    Thanks Hugo.

    So "<> ALL" is equivalent to "NOT IN" ?

  • RE: ALL clause in SQL Server

    I got this wrong, but having read the explanation I'm still none the wiser...

  • RE: Alias Usage

    demonfox (6/17/2013)I wonder how 28 % got it wrong...

    Inability to read in my case :hehe:

  • RE: Indexing

    Luis Cazares (6/14/2013)


    The question is interesting but I do wonder why would someone would disable a clustered index?

    They wouldn't - but the question shows you what would happen if they...

  • RE: SHOWPLAN_XML

    mtassin (6/13/2013)


    does the writer consider the one row of xml plan that is returned a row or not?

    but if they do, then there are two correct answers (the...

  • RE: SHOWPLAN_XML

    Can't see how any coin flip was needed. One interpretation resulted in 2 correct answers, which wasn't an option. So the other interpretation had to be correct.

  • RE: Float Data Type

    mtassin (6/10/2013)


    the fun times are when you find financial applications that use them

    nothing wrong with that, so long as you Round as necessary

  • RE: Assigning categories to values 1

    Hugo Kornelis (5/18/2013)


    not native but, if I may say so, better than the average non-native English speaker

    Better than most native English speakers, unfortunately...

  • RE: EXCEPT - 1

    I guess you're right. I'd assumed it meant the keyword DISTINCT, given that it was in uppercase 🙂

  • RE: EXCEPT - 1

    Easy enough if you know how EXCEPT and related options work.

    But don't quite understand the statement "The key to this is of course the use of DISTINCT".

    There is no use...

  • RE: Assigning categories to values 2

    You should only rely on clauses evaluating in order when no aggregates are involved.

    Good job the question didn't include any of those or I'd have been scuppered!

  • RE: Assigning categories to values 1

    It's clear if you look at the ANSI documentation, which says

    "X BETWEEN Y AND Z" is equivalent to "X>=Y AND X<=Z".

  • RE: Assigning categories to values 1

    Thomas Abraham (5/14/2013)


    I lost those two very valuable points

    I hadn't noticed it was two points.

    Woo hoo - Barbados here I come!

    😎

  • RE: INTO Identities

    SQLRNNR (5/13/2013)


    just read the query for the intent

    that's what I did.

    I assumed the intent related to the need for a column alias

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