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  • RE: TOP Clause

    sql Sarah (5/9/2014)


    I changed A and B to temp tables and ran this. It returned 5 rows.

    How do you get 8 rows for the answer? :unsure:

    TOP n WITH TIES...

  • RE: Datatypes In Your Mind

    Eirikur Eiriksson (5/6/2014)


    According to Celko, "Machine-level things like a BIT or BYTE data type have no place in SQL."

    😎

    This is why it's a very good thing Celko isn't the only...

  • RE: Datatypes In Your Mind

    Jeff Moden (5/5/2014)


    Even though I strongly [font="Arial Black"]disagree [/font]that BIT is an integer datatype simply because it can't be used in certain bits of math, such as a SUM(), I...

  • RE: SSMS Results

    Gobikannan (4/18/2014)


    ...If the settings are imported from SQL Server 2018 settings...

    Well, that's what you get for time-travelling. 😛

  • RE: Buffer Pool Extensions

    I remembered hearing about this at PASS 2013, and remembered correctly!

    Some interesting wrong choices, though!

  • RE: Why every SQL Server installation should be a cluster

    This is a good start to an article, but it's more of an advertisement than a convincing argument. Why? It's all upside.

    You don't acknowledge the costs of clustering: hardware, licensing,...

  • RE: Limited Time Offer: Licensing by Scale for SQL Server

    We're actively reviewing our licensing RIGHT NOW. So you pulled me in with this one. I should have realized it was fake, given that the links to the "new" licensing...

  • RE: OPENQUERY-2

    Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (3/24/2014)


    Carlo Romagnano (3/24/2014)


    Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (3/24/2014)


    Interesting question, thanks Carlo

    thought the lack of a semi-colon between deleted.* and COMMIT would cause an error.

    Goes to show...

    The lack of a...

  • RE: Replication between SQL Server versions

    I haven't done any replication yet, so this is entirely based on the documentation, but it looks like none of the answers are correct. From the linked document:

    For all types...

  • RE: Logic Precedence

    david.wright-948385 (2/12/2014)


    Always add brackets when mixing operators. Even if you know the rules, brackets make a calculation less prone to misunderstanding.

    Until you have several layers of brackets, at which point...

  • RE: Santa's Reindeer

    Fun question!

    Although it doesn't change the answer, there is still some debate as to whether Rudolph is canon... 😛

  • RE: Data Compression

    SQLRNNR (11/13/2013)


    Gary Varga (11/13/2013)


    SQLRNNR (11/12/2013)


    Vardecimal existed only in SQL 2005. SQL 2008 introduced compression (row and page). While vardecimal is a form of compression, the fact that it...

  • RE: Orphaned users

    ronmoses (10/31/2013)


    I clearly need some educatin' here. I'm very much not an administrator, so bear with me.

    "TestWindowsUser is in a domain group that is a member of db_owner and...

  • RE: Extended Procs

    Carlo Romagnano (10/1/2013)


    sknox (10/1/2013)


    Haven't had time to research SQL 2014 yet.

    Guessed optimistically.

    Got it wrong.

    Can anyone explain why this should still be around when CLR has been available to replace its...

  • RE: Extended Procs

    Haven't had time to research SQL 2014 yet.

    Guessed optimistically.

    Got it wrong.

    Can anyone explain why this should still be around when CLR has been available to replace its functionality since 2005?

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