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  • RE: Date Puzzle

    Hugo Kornelis (10/27/2010)


    And if you ever install SQL Server on a German OS, acccepting all defaults, you'll find that the Server language also defaults to German..

    Is that becuase of the...

  • RE: Date Puzzle

    da-zero (10/27/2010)


    Have smileys totally lost their value nowadays?

    I am not certain. Are they? :w00t:

    I just used your response as a jumping off point. ๐Ÿ˜›

    I know you are not...

  • RE: Date Puzzle

    Michael Valentine Jones (10/27/2010)


    Toreador (10/27/2010)


    Hugo Kornelis (10/27/2010)


    print 'Format mdy'

    set dateformat mdy

    select x1 =convert(datetime,'2010-12-31')

    go

    print 'Format ymd'

    set dateformat ydm

    select x2=convert(datetime,'2010-12-31')

    Results:

    Format mdy

    x1

    ------------------------

    2010-12-31 00:00:00.000

    (1 row(s) affected)

    Format ymd

    Server: Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line...

  • RE: Date Puzzle

    Hugo Kornelis (10/27/2010)


    SanDroid (10/27/2010)


    da-zero (10/27/2010)


    These questions should provide a learning opportunity, and that will hardly happen with questions as simple as this one. I expect the QotD to be about...

  • RE: Date Puzzle

    da-zero (10/27/2010)


    All I am reading is: easy question = good, difficult question = bad ๐Ÿ˜‰

    I can tell by your reading and writing level you might be the moderator checking the...

  • RE: Date Puzzle

    I give this question Five Stars!

    It was code correct, the question was clear and had no typo's, and the author clearly understood the concept his question was testing.

    This Question of...

  • RE: Enable Broker Service

    Mayank (10/26/2010)


    Normally to enable the Broker Service, you need to simply use : "ENABLE_BROKER"

    But when you restore the back up of database db1 to database db2, and after that if...

  • RE: How Truncate statement ?

    knmanojclt (10/21/2010)


    I was searching in the sql for 'costomermaster' in the entire sql but I didn't find anything.

    Thanks & Regards

    Manoj Kumar

    I really hope you are joking. ...

  • RE: How Truncate statement ?

    Iulian -207023 (10/21/2010)


    With all these restrictions what kind of application would use truncate table?[/b]

    One that supports RDMS management and Administration.

    It can take up to 3 hours to transactionaly Delete and...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    Hyperdata (10/12/2010)


    This is the business case for GUIDs that I believe make the use appropriate.

    Last year I spent three months on such a case. That work...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    e3h4 (10/12/2010)


    People often assume you need to use GUIDs for unique values across databases and for replication. However, there is an easy way to get around that using an...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    Craig-315134 (10/12/2010)


    SanDroid wrote:

    You are mistaken. The question asked was 'what is the business purpose for using GUIDs?'

    How could I have been so stupid to think we were talking about...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    Craig-315134 (10/12/2010)


    wrote:

    The need, and thus the related cost, for centralised provisioning of that identifer are accordingly obviated.

    This explains why a person should use a UUID in application development.

    That is...

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    David Walker-278941 (10/12/2010)


    OK, well, I see that we disagree. People who are smarter than I am (who write books on the guts of SQL, for example) also like GUIDs....

  • RE: Are There That Many GUIDs?

    dwinters 67194 (10/12/2010)


    As a consultant I find myself constantly coming in behind folks and fixing designs that try to only work with identity, int, or char keys when a GUID...

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