Cell Phone Horror Stories
These are some stories that show the downside of everyone having cell phones.
These are some stories that show the downside of everyone having cell phones.
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There is a web site devoted to humorous tales from the tech
support field. Check out these samples and submit your own.
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Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers