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  • RE: Numeric or Not Numeric

    ISNUMERIC must be one of the least useful of the built-in functions.

    It would be nice to have a function to validate that an input can be CAST or CONVERTed to...

  • RE: SSRS case sensitivity

    Carlo Romagnano (2/23/2010)


    stewartc-708166 (2/22/2010)


    Good question.

    Please do not post useless thinks.

    That statement seems self-contradictory...;-)

  • RE: Triggers

    A PRINT statement in a trigger :sick:

  • RE: A question on Data Types

    The sooner these are removed, the better. Cannot believe they have lasted this long!

  • RE: SARGable

    Bit hash calling the lack of an automatic transformation from LEFT to LIKE a bug!

    Are you sure it is a provably safe transformation in absolutely all cases?

  • RE: SARGable

    Dietmar Weickert (2/26/2010)


    Once again a crap QotD.

  • A missing column name a typo? Hard to believe.
  • No info about indices on the table/view to be queried? Who could potentially know about SARGable...

  • RE: Optimization

    Managed to get this wrong! Oh dear...

  • RE: Counting spaces with datalength

    Not my lucky day.

  • RE: How many rows are returned from the query below?

    Interesting question today - a bit odd, but it makes you think, I guess.

  • RE: Data flow source

    My SSIS is apparently getting rusty. Must find an excuse to use it again, soon.

  • RE: Sparse Columns

    Lucky guess today. Thanks for making me think about it, though can't imagine it will ever be useful.

  • RE: Cast vs. Convert

    Interesting - and nicely controversial. Thanks.

  • RE: COUNT_BIG

    Good question, thank you.

  • RE: Primary Keys

    Good question, but the wording could have been clearer. Nice easy points though - thanks.

  • RE: What's the count?

    Amazing that so many people are unaware of the syntax. Especially since it pre-dates the CROSS JOIN form.

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