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L' Eomot Inversé (5/15/2012)
got it right by common sense reasoning, not by random guessing.
My common sense reasoning (followed by a random guess) was that there are plenty of other places...
May 15, 2012 at 7:59 am
I knew the answer, but if I hadn't then a reasonable guess would have been that it would work - on the basis that it makes sense to have a...
May 15, 2012 at 6:08 am
Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (5/15/2012)
what is disturbing is how many (45% at this point in time) of responders selected "yes".
Why is that disturbing? It's not as if it's important to know...
May 15, 2012 at 6:05 am
L' Eomot Inversé (5/9/2012)It would have been somewhat shocking if I had got this one wrong after writing the 15th April 2010 QotD 😛
I thought the subject seemed familiar!
May 10, 2012 at 2:19 am
To those who said the answer was easy - is this because you know how SQL handles implicit conversions of this sort, or because you ran the code? I didn't...
May 8, 2012 at 2:40 am
Does anyone have any suggestions for possible uses for sequences? Once upon a time I'd have used them for populating primary keys instead of using identities (ie the way I...
May 1, 2012 at 5:49 am
KWymore (4/25/2012)
I have no issue not being told how many answers to choose.
My only issue is that since we're nortmally told when more than one answer is needed, I...
April 25, 2012 at 8:18 am
codebyo (4/25/2012)
Sorry, guys, for not adding a note on how many answers should be selected.
Steve always used to do this (or something in the QotD publishing widget did it automatically).
April 25, 2012 at 5:32 am
Steve's presumably got rid of the code that automatically told you how many options to choose on a multi-select question 🙁
April 25, 2012 at 2:49 am
Thomas Abraham (4/24/2012)
this feature behaves as you would design it.
Which is the reason I guessed wrong 😉
April 24, 2012 at 5:35 am
I guessed right, on the basis that if the answer was No then it wouldn't be a very interesting question 🙂
It then prompted me to read up a bit on...
April 16, 2012 at 9:56 am
Interesting! Also
select Top 5 with ties *
from TopTest
order by SomeValue desc
Seems like in this case, NULL = NULL
April 13, 2012 at 8:04 am
Daniel Bowlin (4/13/2012)Then I thought when right clicking on a table and choosing "Select Top 1000 Rows" there are no () surrounding the number.
So there aren't. How very Microsoft!
April 13, 2012 at 7:30 am
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