Excellent question for a Friday.

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Good question. Man, I have not used the "_" in a while so I almost got it wrong. Thankfully my brain kicked in.:-D

Thanks for the question.

All:

I thought I had put in the answer "the format indicated in the question is a determination of my regional \ language settings (en-us \ short datetime: M\d\yyyy h:mm:ss tt)..."....

L' Eomot Inversé (11/13/2013)

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Jason and Koen have pointed out the flaws in this question.

I wonder how many people will end up answering (correctly) "developer edition" and finding out...

Good question. Definitely a DBA question. +1

Nice question and good "back to basics."

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L' Eomot Inversé (11/5/2013)

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Well, maybe we should say 52% are correct -...

twin.devil, you stated it perfectly, it is a trap question....

Nice question. Missed it though...selected 3 out of the 4 correct. Next time, I guess I'll read it a bit more "slowly." 😀

L' Eomot Inversé (10/30/2013)

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Not a really bad query, but not really good either. It's fallen into the trap of assuming that the order in which rows in the heap...

All:

I thought I would give a nice "fun" one. I believe in the basics and you would be very surprised as to how many "experienced" DBAs (Logical and\or Physical)...

Nice question geared to the fundamentals. I almost got it wrong (reading it over too quickly). Thanks. 🙂

KWymore (10/22/2013)

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Agreed, maybe it was marked for 2 points because we don't get a lot of DW-specific questions? Had it been...

All:

I wanted to make this more of a definition for learning purposes. I am natively a BI person and I LOVE BI and related "true" statistical analysis (especially since...

Koen:

While the SCD transformation does not natively adhere to level 3, I have used other transformations to accommodate SCD level 3.

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