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Mike Is Here Hall of Fame Points: 3348 More actions · Answer 1

Good question but this real doesn't have to do with the data type bit but instead about reading double negatives

IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 WHERE @BIT IS NOT NULL) SELECT 'Output 2'

@Bit could have been any non-null type

mtassin SSC-Insane Points: 23099 More actions · Answer 2

mbova407 (1/22/2013)
Good question but this real doesn't have to do with the data type bit but instead about reading double negatives
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 WHERE @BIT IS NOT NULL) SELECT 'Output 2'
@Bit could have been any non-null type

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January 22, 2013 at 7:05 am

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Nice, easy logic question to get the day started!

Stuart Davies SSCoach Points: 19505 More actions · Answer 4

Thanks for the question (and the point)

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BarbW SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4759 More actions · Answer 5

The question's IF statements challenged my logic processing more than the data type, but it still was a good question because I like logic puzzles - Thanks 🙂

john.arnott SSChampion Points: 11882 More actions · Answer 6

Excellent question. I speculate that Output 2 drew the most wrong answers due to its double-negative ("not exists ... is not null").

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Thank you for the question.

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Miles Neale SSChampion Points: 13147 More actions · Answer 8

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January 22, 2013 at 4:32 pm

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Nice, +1

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kapil_kk SSC-Insane Points: 21316 More actions · Answer 9

nice question..

+1 😛

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 10

Nice question, but the reference provided in the explanation doesn't cover the only interesting point here, which is whether the variable is null after assigning the string 'TRUE' to it; Lokesh Vij already posted the reference for that.

Of course the question could be answered with very little idea of what's going on, since either the variable was null (in which case there would be three outputs) or it wasn't (and there would be no output). Since thoption for three outputs wasn't avalaible, the right answer had to be no output - so just the ability to evaluate simple boolean expressions would be enough to answer the question. So it's rather surprising that 218 people (21%) managed to get it wrong.

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