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SQL Surfer '66 SSCertifiable Points: 5161 More actions · Answer 1

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September 13, 2012 at 3:42 am

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A good and tricky one. Thank you.

Raghavendra Mudugal SSChampion Points: 10658 More actions · Answer 2

Hugo Kornelis (9/13/2012)
Finally, I can give you one example where this knowledge can be useful: when you have a co-worker whose idea of fun it is to change the batch seperator to, for instance, "SELECT" when you are away from your keyboard, and then watch you struggle to understand why your code is not working anymore. After this QotD, you will probably be able to recognise and fix the problem much faster than you otherwise would have.

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Few minutes ago did this on my coworker's system and provided this link qtod to solve it.... (for him I was genius.... :hehe: )

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Skanker Hall of Fame Points: 3059 More actions · Answer 3

Misread the true meaning of the question so got it wrong. Thanks for the followup discussion as I struggled with this one.

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 4

Good question

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(Bob Brown) SSCrazy Points: 2705 More actions · Answer 5

Learned something but it was a horribly presented question. Can't believe it got through any type of quality assurance.

Thomas Abraham SSChampion Points: 10761 More actions · Answer 6

Thanks for the question. I got it right, but did so with a semi-educated guess. I reasoned that, if the answer was FALSE, this is a useless question of a type on which you can make unlimited variations. Might I suggest that a better way to express the same idea is to say something like:

In what way can the query be made to run as written?

A. Hop on one leg

B. Pat your head

C. Eat kippers for breakfast

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honza.mf SSCertifiable Points: 5519 More actions · Answer 7

Raghavendra Mudugal (9/13/2012)
Hugo Kornelis (9/13/2012)
Finally, I can give you one example where this knowledge can be useful: when you have a co-worker whose idea of fun it is to change the batch seperator to, for instance, "SELECT" when you are away from your keyboard, and then watch you struggle to understand why your code is not working anymore. After this QotD, you will probably be able to recognise and fix the problem much faster than you otherwise would have.
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Few minutes ago did this on my coworker's system and provided this link qtod to solve it.... (for him I was genius.... :hehe: )

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Arthur Olcot SSCertifiable Points: 6652 More actions · Answer 8

I got the answer right but got the intention of the question wrong.

When I thought, can I get that script to run without changing it, my method to achieve this was to run them individually as 2 separate batches by highlighting each batch minus the batch separator..

I obviously missed the point of this question :ermm:

Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 9

For those who are curious on how to change the batch terminator:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2299249/what-is-the-use-of-go-in-sql-server-management-studio%5B/url%5D

Best to copy and paste the above link rather than direcly clicking on it.

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(Bob Brown) SSCrazy Points: 2705 More actions · Answer 10

arthurolcot (9/13/2012)
I got the answer right but got the intention of the question wrong.
When I thought, can I get that script to run without changing it, my method to achieve this was to run them individually as 2 separate batches by highlighting each batch minus the batch separator..
I obviously missed the point of this question :ermm:

I think that is the problem. It was very easy to miss the point of the question.

honza.mf SSCertifiable Points: 5519 More actions · Answer 11

arthurolcot (9/13/2012)
I got the answer right but got the intention of the question wrong.
When I thought, can I get that script to run without changing it, my method to achieve this was to run them individually as 2 separate batches by highlighting each batch minus the batch separator..
I obviously missed the point of this question :ermm:

Does it matter? You solved the problem.

Another method: Write a program in your favourite language (C#, C++ ...) that connects to the database, splits the input using notgo, and runs the separated batches.

As all these steps aside are correct, I don't understand the majority of False answers.

Ernie Schlangen SSCrazy Points: 2382 More actions · Answer 12

Followed my usual practice of looking through the documentation, got briefly sidetracked by focusing on the two variable declarations (thinking that I needed to find a way to force the 'NotGo' to be ignored), then found the correct answer. While the wording is slightly non-standard, the question is easily understood and the correct answer wasn't THAT difficult to find. Learned something (useful or not) so this is a good day!

Edit: Correct answer being defined as the answer given by the question author, as I see that others found different ways to solve the problem.

Nils Gustav Stråbø SSChampion Points: 11259 More actions · Answer 13

I knew the correct answer, but only because I used my mind reading skills to extract the missing part of the question.

"Can the following script be made to run in SSMS without changes to the script and without error?"

Yes, I can make it execute successfully in SSMS, but I can never get it to work with .NET or any other programming language.

Hugo Kornelis SSC Guru Points: 64790 More actions · Answer 14

Nils Gustav Stråbø (9/13/2012)
Yes, I can make it execute successfully in SSMS, but I can never get it to work with .NET or any other programming language.

Nor would you if the script had used "GO" instead of "NotGo", as sending a "GO" to SQL Server from .NET or other client program will also result in an error.

You'd have to write the .NET (or other) code such to recognise the GO as a batch terminator, then send everything up to that GO as one batch, then everything following that GO as the next batch. And if you can do that with "GO" as the batch seperator, you can do so with "NotGo" too. (Though I have no idea why you'd want to).

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Mike Hays SSCommitted Points: 1871 More actions · Answer 15

I am not crazy about the wording, but I did learn about batch separators once I found where the setting was in SSMS.

-- Go to Tools -> Options -> Change the Batch Separator to EndBatch from GO.

Painful, but I'll get over it.