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  • RE: Demystifying the use of CASE in an ORDER BY statement

    andrew.diniz (4/26/2012)


    Nice article!

    It's also interesting to note that ordinal positions returned by a CASE statement are not implicitly resolved to field objects.

    That's because a CASE statement CAN'T return ordinal...

  • RE: Demystifying the use of CASE in an ORDER BY statement

    *facepalm*

    Let me see if I can explain this much more simply:

    ORDER BY takes as its arguments a set of expressions, each optionally followed by a direction indicator, separated by commas.

    Essentially,...

  • RE: Sequences II

    Revenant (4/24/2012)


    Well maybe it was not so easy -- currently only 25 percent of correct answers. That's the lowest one I have seen in a long time.

    Yes, it looks like...

  • RE: Sequences II

    Thomas Abraham (4/24/2012)


    I think if you give it some thought, this feature behaves as you would design it. The defaults seem the way I would hope they would - for...

  • RE: SSIS 2012 - Parameter Precedence

    DugyC (4/18/2012)


    Just a shame my company, being a bank, is slow to upgrade and I won't see SQL2012 used in anger probably at least until 2017! :crazy:

    ps. Our 2008R2 upgrade...

  • RE: Sequences I

    Schadenfreude-Mei (4/17/2012)


    deleted due to embarrisment.

    We did kind of jump on you, didn't we? Rest assured it wasn't intended (I know when I wrote my post, the other two weren't there)....

  • RE: Sequences I

    Schadenfreude-Mei (4/17/2012)


    Sorry guys but I took a guess, got it wrong so ran it through my local 2k8r2 and get the below:

    Msg 343, Level 15, State 1, Line 1

    Unknown object...

  • RE: Bulk Logged recovery model

    call.copse (4/16/2012)


    sknox (4/16/2012)


    call.copse (4/16/2012)


    I would go further than the other posters on this thread - sorry, this question and the answer given are just plain WRONG.

    See this MSDN blog entry...

  • RE: Bulk Logged recovery model

    call.copse (4/16/2012)


    I would go further than the other posters on this thread - sorry, this question and the answer given are just plain WRONG.

    See this MSDN blog entry which clearly...

  • RE: Foreign key

    Jack Corbett (4/9/2012)


    sknox (4/9/2012)


    Sean Lange (4/6/2012)


    sknox (4/6/2012)


    Sean Lange (4/6/2012)


    ... Basically you can simulate a foreign key via triggers but it is NOT actually a foreign key.

    NO.

    Any column in...

  • RE: Foreign key

    Sean Lange (4/6/2012)


    sknox (4/6/2012)


    Sean Lange (4/6/2012)


    ... Basically you can simulate a foreign key via triggers but it is NOT actually a foreign key.

    NO.

    Any column in a table is a foreign...

  • RE: Foreign key

    Sean Lange (4/6/2012)


    ... Basically you can simulate a foreign key via triggers but it is NOT actually a foreign key.

    NO.

    Any column in a table is a foreign key column if...

  • RE: Generating Test Data: Part 1 - Generating Random Integers and Floats

    Jeff Moden (3/26/2012)


    dwain.c (3/26/2012)


    Outstanding article Jeff! Just what the doctor ordered for something I'm working on at this instant.

    I can't wait for the purists to berate you for using...

  • RE: SSIS-Fast Parse

    Got it right, even though it was an (educated) guess. My work with SQL Server introduced me to the YYYY MM DD date order, and to me it's the most...

  • RE: Dealing with custom date formats in T-SQL

    Very nice article. It provides a set of useful solutions to a common issue, while also highlighting the fact that some common "mantras" (i.e, Inline TVFs are more efficient than...

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