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  • RE: Isolation Levels

    Can someone explain in what way SNAPSHOT doesn't meet the stated requirements? That's the answer I selected and I always like to know exactly how I've been a helpless newb......

  • RE: Rounding question

    crmitchell (11/19/2012)


    You mean the rule you were taught at school to round halves to even numbers?

    That's "banker's rounding", and it certainly isn't routinely taught in schools in the UK; and...

  • RE: COALESCE - 2

    It's difficult to think of a situation where this would arise...is it actually possible to get an untyped NULL via any means other than just typing NULL into the function?

  • RE: Stairway to Transaction Log Management in SQL Server, Level 6: Managing the Log in BULK_LOGGED Recovery Model

    I'm sure I've said this before, but I don't think the advantages of using BULK LOGGED mode are worth the potential risks. If the data is critical enough that the...

  • RE: How do I configure a named instance in SQL EXPRESS 2008 R2?

    That's only showing the client tools--there should be a section in there for the database engine as well. Are you sure this isn't just the Management Studio Express installer you're...

  • RE: What installs SQL Express?

    The instance name of the installed software may give a clue as to what installed it--the aforementioned Backup Exec instance is called BKUPEXEC, for example.

  • RE: character ordering

    mtassin (11/1/2012)


    Oh and of course I got it wrong... because I just went with

    SELECT ASCII('Z')-ASCII('0')

    That's pretty much what I did, but I did it in my head rather than using...

  • RE: LEAD - 1

    I thought the answers were a trifle ambiguous--I think it would have been a lot clearer if the 3rd column was aliased as "Sales Goal" rather than "Sales". As it...

  • RE: A SQL Server Log Reader

    OK, OK, I admit it: there are probably situations where this would be useful. I suppose I was thinking more about the "delete without WHERE" option, which to me would...

  • RE: Installing SQL 2008 R2 onto a new PC

    Rod at work (10/23/2012)Now I'm really curious to know how this will effect things during deployment?

    The only thing I can think of that might cause issues during deployment is that...

  • RE: A SQL Server Log Reader

    Surely, for the faulty transaction to still be in the log file, the database must be in full (or bulk-logged) recovery, so you ought to be able to do a...

  • RE: Table Variables

    There's something wrong with my brain this week--I did the research and then somehow ended up clicking that you could have multiple ROWGUIDs on a table variable, even though you...

  • RE: COALESCE

    Been trying to figure out what blind alley my brain went down to get this *wrong*--I correctly got the entire thing down to ISNULL('NULL', 'Pass') + 'Fail', but then somehow...

  • RE: SQL Serevr Services

    No, you can't. SQL server permissions are entirely independent of Windows server permissions, and you need to be a local admin to restart a service--there are no exceptions to this.

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