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  • RE: How well do you know MAX?

    Tom.Thomson (8/7/2011)


    john.arnott (8/6/2011)


    Perhaps put off by the apparent snarkiness ("I would hope that most...") of Tom's refutal of my post questioning the use of Float for monetary values, ....

    You must...

  • RE: How well do you know MAX?

    Perhaps put off by the apparent snarkiness ("I would hope that most...") of Tom's refutal of my post questioning the use of Float for monetary values, I decided to let...

  • RE: How well do you know MAX?

    Cliff Jones (8/5/2011)


    I thought this question was about using approximate data types so got it right for the wrong reason.

    I would hope that most viewers of this understand that the...

  • RE: How to Compare the Data in Two Tables Without Any 3rd-Party Tool?

    Sarabpreet,

    Thank you for this straight-forward description and instructions on Tablediff.

    Yes, the EXCEPT operator is easy to use to find rows that differ between tables, but then Tablediff also...

  • RE: Talking baseball

    Markus (7/27/2011)


    .... No other umpire can say anything until the calling umpire asks for help.....

    Perhaps the answer for this could be in the "inside" game that the umpires...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Tom.Thomson (7/26/2011)


    Grant Fritchey (7/26/2011)


    Can't help it, I have to share. I was doing some Boogling or Ginging, whatever we call it now, when I stumbled across a really scary bit...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Gus,

    Thanks for the encouragement. I've submitted my meta-QOD.

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Would it be OK to submit this as a QOD?

    Question:

    What's the answer?Answer choices:

    It depends.

    It doesn't depend.

    What's the question?

    I think there's a tpyo in here so I can only guess.

    There are...

  • RE: Precedence

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. "It depends", "it depends", "it depends"...

    Since that wasn't one of the choices given, we have to put aside our nit-pickers hats and take the question at...

  • RE: That case filter

    jlennartz (7/22/2011)


    Yep, I got it wrong, also. But to me I got it right because I figured out it would have inserted 5 rows, as started.

    You beat me...

  • RE: T-SQL Parsing Crazy Eights

    Tao,

    I'd be honored if you included my goofy query in your test bed. You've just given me two things in return: an Anglicism I'd not heard before ("chuffed")...

  • RE: That case filter

    Excellent topic for a QOTD. It had me wondering if recursive selects would work as input to an insert. For a bit, anyway. So, even though I...

  • RE: In-CASE you need to SUM...

    After a string of straight-forward tests of knowledge, I'd forgotten to consider the possibility of a "trick" question and skimmed through the UNIONs as mere test-bed setup for the "real"...

  • RE: Talking baseball

    Yeah, that ball would mean more to the player than to me, too. But just give it to him?

    If Mr. Millionaire handed you an envelope with $100,000,...

  • RE: SELECT and WHERE without FROM

    sknox (6/23/2011)


    .... the where condition filters the input to the aggregate functions, not the output from them.

    ...

    True. And of course this is because the Where clause filters input to...

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