Thanks for the great question and all the excellent comments.

Thanks for easy one. Giving us the parens even made it easier.

Thanks for the question.

Thanks for the great question! A true learning question with no controversy.

Thanks for the question. Wasn't real familiar with these functions and I paid for it.

Thank you Sean. I was not questioning the validity of the number of correct answers, I just wanted to know what I was missing on #3 being incorrect.

Toreador (1/4/2013)

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There are 4 correct...

Lively debate today. It seems it is very hard to write a question of this sort without some confusion attached. Straight SQL questions with unequivocal results seem to...

Thanks for the question.

Good question. Catching up on QotD, been on vacation.

I knew there might be a controversy over this question but I took a stab at YES because of the Itsik Ben-Gan article I read on this subject. Still I...

Derek Dongray (12/19/2012)

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I can't see anywhere in the question where it says this is supposed to be for 2012. Presumbly, it was thought that it's enough that TRY_PARSE and PARSE...

Thanks for a nice easy Wednesday question.

Greatly appreciated easy question after I struggled with yesterdays.

Confused me. Do not have 2012 to play with. On 2008 this thing errors.