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  • RE: Python division

    Tsk, tsk...

  • RE: Collation order by

    ildjarn.is.dead - Thursday, January 18, 2018 2:10 AM

    SQL 2015?

    It's a special release only Steve has😛

  • RE: Collation order by

    I got it right. Collations are tricky business. I think this is one case where people from countries that don't use English as their primary language have an edge.

  • RE: Extremely Quick Backups

    Interesting. If you look in the linked documentation, you're led to believe that the ... FILE = NUL syntax (without the single quotes) is the correct one, but clearly that...

  • RE: Ending 2017

    One has to admire Steve's tenacity at getting questions slightly bent.:hehe:

  • RE: Christmas 2017 - Part 4

    Very hard to know if 'Adult' refers to the Age or Genre for the movie "'s a wonderful life"...

  • RE: Parameters

    Interesting question, but I would argue that R isn't "smart enough to know that the last parameter, unnamed, is second", but  rather that R is "stupid enough to not complain...

  • RE: Cube v rollup

    amd.repetto - Thursday, December 14, 2017 10:08 AM

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Thursday, December 14, 2017...

  • RE: Cube v rollup

    Not sure I follow the reasoning behind the correct answers. WITH CUBE returns more rows, but not WITH ROLLUP. And yet they return the same number of rows? How is...

  • RE: Singular or Plural

    If you look anywhere outside of the database world, I'm pretty sure you'd get a pretty unequivocal answer: You have, for example, a number of objects/structures/tuples/rows that are manifestations of...

  • RE: Naming the Columns

    RoNoS - Wednesday, December 6, 2017 12:39 AM

    Isn't that giving a syntax error about a missing bracket?

    That would be my guess as...

  • RE: Assigning Result Set Column Names

    Ken Wymore - Monday, December 4, 2017 10:59 PM

    I'll fess up to answering it wrong. That's what I get for not paying...

  • RE: Index operations with max degree of parallelism value

    Well, the traceflag doesn't control anything except parallelism of DBCC:

    Disables parallel checking of objects by...

  • RE: Data Type Precedence

    Nice one. I got it wrong, simply because I figured adding two dates just doesn't make any sense, and so the result should be the strings concatenated.

  • RE: Logical Query Processing Filters

    Bzzzt!

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