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December 6, 2011 at 9:00 pm

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If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
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Henrico Bekker One Orange Chip Points: 27652 More actions · Answer 1

great question (if you didnt run the t-sql)....certainly whipped by butt today 🙂

lesson learned.

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Revenant SSC-Forever Points: 42467 More actions · Answer 2

bitbucket, you are thereby appointed an SQLServerCentral sneak in residence. 🙂

Thanks for an interesting QotD!

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Revenant (12/6/2011)
bitbucket, you are thereby appointed an SQLServerCentral sneak in residence. 🙂
Thanks for an interesting QotD!

Why thank you for the compliment. And when you try my next QOD scheduled for publication 14 Dec 2011 - why you might even want to repeat that appointment or give me another one such as

"Chief SQLServerCentral sneak in residence."

Oh a question for you ... should I add that title to my signature block?

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

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ma-516002 Hall of Fame Points: 3359 More actions · Answer 4

Great question, but the answer is language dependant since outside the us at first glance '01-08-2011' reads 1st of August 😉

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 5

Good question. At first glance I had a hunch there was something sneaky about it.

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Iulian -207023 SSCertifiable Points: 7639 More actions · Answer 6

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Thank you for the question

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michael.kaufmann SSCrazy Points: 2816 More actions · Answer 7

ma-516002 (12/7/2011)
Great question, but the answer is language dependant since outside the us at first glance '01-08-2011' reads 1st of August 😉

Fully agree--thus I'd always be in favor of ISO 8601 notation of YYYY-MM-DD (2010-01-08, aka international date) when writing dates without the month's name in it.

Thanks for a good and easy question :-).

Tom257 SSChampion Points: 11543 More actions · Answer 8

First I got 53,30,1,32 - but soon realised you're using an ambiguous date format.

Thanks for the question:

Week 53 is quite a common occurrance where I work, so it came as no surprise that SQL Server has started implementing it. I may simplify some of our procedures that calculate week 53 if this iso_week function fits our requirements.

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 9

Nice question, learned about iso_week.

It would have been better if the dates were in ISO format, but that's just a detail.

You could derive the answer immediately if you just found the week for the 1st of January of 2010, so it isn't even necessary to look at the rest of the question 🙂

edit: and there were certainly no problems with the font size of the question 😀

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Hugo Kornelis SSC Guru Points: 64790 More actions · Answer 10

<sigh>

When will people finally learn that the US date format is NOT universal??

For a large majority of the world, the correct answer is 53, 31, 1, 32.

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Hugo Kornelis (12/7/2011)
<sigh>
When will people finally learn that the US date format is NOT universal??
For a large majority of the world, the correct answer is 53, 31, 1, 32.

And there are many of us in the US that wish we used the same system as most others - just makes more sense. Now, about the metric system .....

Also, BitBucket, thanks for the question. I was weak on iso_week, but no longer thanks to you!

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Britt Cluff SSCertifiable Points: 5083 More actions · Answer 12

Learned something new today. Thanks for the great question.

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rfr.ferrari SSCertifiable Points: 6879 More actions · Answer 13

nice question!!!

thanks!

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Cliff Jones SSChampion Points: 10547 More actions · Answer 14

ma-516002 (12/7/2011)
Great question, but the answer is language dependant since outside the us at first glance '01-08-2011' reads 1st of August 😉

Yes, this is a lesson we learn quite quickly (the hard way) if ever we have to port our application from one language or country to another.