"Confers ownership-like capabilities on the grantee." Yes, I read this sentence several times and also SQL Docs "ALTER AUTHORIZATION (Transact-SQL)". Then I found links to "

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by  George Vobr.

Thanks for this interesting question Steve but I'm not sure why the bcp command doesn't specify the connection to SQL Server? See Docs bcp Utility.

Thanks Steve for this question and all the work on SSC.com. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you. Good luck in the new year.

Thanks Steve for this explanation, I understand. The current state is well stated in What you can do with Language Extensions.

I have. But see also the...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by  George Vobr.

It might help to...

Thanks Steve for this question, it's a good reminder about useful preference variables.

I answered "Only a SCH-M lock". I didn't test it, I was based on DOCS Lock Compatibility, where SCH-M is not compatible with IX.

I like the way you have it well thought out, how the questions follow each other logically after weeks. There is a small detail on today's QotD from which one...

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by  George Vobr.

But still, this question gave me new knowledge, such as what are base packages in R, how to make a list of installed packages, because without plyr package you can...

I'm sorry, but your explanation is incorrect. Numpy.info, to which you refer, is a numpy-specific help function that does not give such an output about the data frame that is...

Thanks for this question, but is the ranking 1, 2, 2, 4, 5 given in the explanation correct? For the default SKIP, I would expect the ranking 1, 2, 2,...

Sorry, I have no question, I just wanted to point out the 3rd parameter for the ROUND function;-)

Thanks Steve for this question. You can also try this:

SELECT ROUND(-7.7, 0, 1) as Round_truncated, CEILING(-7.7) as 'Ceiling';  
GO

I don't work with memory-optimized tables so I searched the web for the answer. Two sources state that DBCC CHECKTABLE will return: "Msg 5296, Level 16, State 1, Line 86...

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by  George Vobr.