Nice job linking to the Russian language online docs...

However, there is nothing in that text which says anything about whether ALTER TRIGGER affects the enable/disable state of the trigger.

Hugo Kornelis (9/3/2013)

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You must have overlooked the things already mentioned about ordering by Rune Irvin, Terreador,...

Interesting. Those are somewhat different from the SQL 2012 plans. And goes to show that when something isn't documented it may very well change between releases without any formal notice.

L' Eomot Inversé (9/3/2013)

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Rune Bivrin (9/3/2013)

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Just look at the execution plan and tell me if there is no difference.

Or even try this, where NEWID() is completely eliminated from the second...

John Mitchell-245523 (9/3/2013)

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There's very little difference. On SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2, there was...

Just look at the execution plan and tell me if there is no difference.

Or even try this, where NEWID() is completely eliminated from the second query.

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SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER...

Great question!

I've never used DQS, but the correct answer just seemed the most logical.

Got it. But to be precise there won't even be a result set. Not even one with zero rows.

I did what any BI consultant would do: I stuffed the numbers into Excel and did a Power Pivot.

Hugo Kornelis (5/2/2013)

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However, to do some nitpicking:

1. If I were to try this code on my system, I would get five errors. All system table (*) names are completely lowercase,...

tl;dr

Well, the question is a good one, and I got it right, but if I see code like that I reach for the shot gun.

That was ...

... interesting:rolleyes:

And certainly not views that do [font="Courier New"]SELECT *[/font]

I couldn't even remember what an SPN was, but I figured -R should be RESET, and -D should be DELETE. That left -L for LIST. Good thing the tool writers...