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  • Reply To: SQL MI Stop/Start Billing

    17-7 = 10, and then some minutes. Given that billing is per started hour, I'd venture that the available answers fall short.

  • Reply To: DOP Feedback Compatibilty

    I'm not even going to begin trying to figure out what the question is. My guess is at least half the text is missing.

  • Reply To: More ANSI_PADDING Tables

    Scott Arendt wrote:

    I noticed that the actual answer did not appear in the results.  I tried to guess the intent of the question, but was wrong.

    There are two results that can...

  • Reply To: More ANSI_PADDING Tables

    The correct answer to this will depend on the setting of ANSI_NULL_DFLT_ON, since the NULLability of the CHAR column isn't specified.

  • Reply To: The VALUES Limit

    George Vobr wrote:

    The question is asked clearly: "What is the limit for rows in a Table Valued Constructor?". The documentation states that there is a limit. So there is nothing left...

  • Reply To: The VALUES Limit

    A table valued constructor is only limited to 1000 rows when used directly as a source for an insert statement. When used to create a derived table there is no...

  • Reply To: Necessary Insert Columns

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    Part of the QotD is knowing defaults. This was left off, as many people do this and the default is to allow NULLs.

    As a good practice, however, I agree....

  • Reply To: Necessary Insert Columns

    Just to nit-pick: This will depend on the settings of ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT_OFF / ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT_ON for the session, or by the ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT database option. By default, these will be set such that...

  • Reply To: EXCEPT

    Carlo Romagnano wrote:

    Of course the isolation level of the database should be as in the image

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    Of course! That's obviously clear from the question😋

  • Reply To: EXCEPT

    I would argue that in principle the explanation is correct. However, in the example given, this would result in zero rows, unless a very specific set of conditions are met....

  • Reply To: Changing the TDE Encryption

    Maybe it's a good idea to refrain from answering this until the correct answer has been reviewed...

  • Reply To: My New Resolution

    leonardo.ssantos79 wrote:

    But the question was ONLY the year, and the year function (getdate()) doesn't do that?

    It does, but there are two problems with that:

    1. It's not among the given alternatives
    2. ...

  • Reply To: My New Resolution

    Easy enough. But I would personally assign whoever created that table with DATETIME instead of DATE to toilet cleaing duty for a week...

  • Reply To: My New Resolution

    Well, there's usually not much real body to New Year's resolutions...

  • Reply To: Database Snapshot Sparse Files

    Brilliant! So now those of us who answered master_files are flagged as giving a completely incorrect answer, rather than an equally correct alternate answer.

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