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  • RE: Between & Collation

    L' Eomot Inversé (8/29/2013)


    Good question.

    ... in case sensitive collations ''sysygy' would sort before 'Sally', but in practice it sorts after 'Sally' regardless of whether the collation is case sensitive or...

  • RE: Between & Collation

    Hugo Kornelis (8/29/2013)

    ...

    Nice question. I decided to rely on my memory of lowercase/uppercase order instead of double checking. Bad decision. 😉

    As the statistic on the results shows an almost fifty-fifty...

  • RE: Between & Collation

    Good question. It raises, for me, a question: in the case that the _CS option is not specified, "SQL Server considers the uppercase and lowercase versions of letters...

  • RE: Stunned

    I have seen very good male nurse and very good female boss. Good and smart people do not depend on the sex, the color of the skin, the language,...

  • RE: CONCAT 1

    Just to add my tiny experience here about Null, if I may.

    I had those statistics Views created from many tables. Every source tables were loaded from different group...

  • RE: CONCAT 1

    Nice reading you guys!

    Hugo, you should write a book!

    Thanks Ron, that was a nice and an entertaining question!

  • RE: View - 8

    Hugo Kornelis (10/8/2012)


    ...You may use SSMS, but not everyone does...

    Just to let you know that also some people reading the QotD might never use anything else then the SSMS because......

  • RE: APPLY - 2

    Never heard of "Apply" before.

    Nice to know that "The difference between join and APPLY operator becomes evident when you have a table-valued expression on the right side and...

  • RE: APPLY - 1

    This was a good question for me: I did not really knew about APPLY so I had to make some test to compare with JOIN: CROSS APPLY vs INNER JOIN...

  • RE: Table Variable

    Do you want to laugth at someone? Well, here you have the opportunity: I got it wrong because for me 2005 and 2012 were "date", not money and because the...

  • RE: BIT Conversions

    Easy question as I had to face it in my programming some time ago!

    Thanks!

  • RE: How to reset the list of backup for a restore process?

    GilaMonster (8/14/2012)


    tilew-948340 (8/13/2012)


    But... when you say "not SIMPLE database restore" you mean "not easy to do" or you reference to the type of DB (simple vs full)?

    Not easy to do....

  • RE: DATEADD function

    Amazing command that dateadd having datepart second, month, etc. Need to know what you are doing when you use it...

    From the explanation, it says that:

    If datepart is month and...

  • RE: How to reset the list of backup for a restore process?

    Perry Whittle (8/13/2012)


    use this to delete backup\restore history for a specific database

    use msdb;

    go

    exec sp_delete_database_backuphistory @database_name = 'yourdbname'

    Seems to do the job!!!!

    Thank you very very much!!!

  • RE: How to reset the list of backup for a restore process?

    GilaMonster (8/13/2012)


    Restore files and filegroup doesn't sound like something you want to do. That's for piecemeal restore and partial restores, not simple database restores.

    Screenshot please? Attach it to your post.

    I...

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