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  • RE: Comparing Execution Plans

    Where in the question did it state that this was SQL2016?

    Even with the new option, why are the tooltip and properties answers incorrect? They're just presenting different views of the...

  • RE: Find the brackets

    funbi (11/17/2016)


    It's a QotD on a forum. The table has 7 rows. Efficiency is not a factor in this instance. My sql was not incorrect - it brought back the...

  • RE: Find the brackets

    I'm assuming there was a typo in one of the options and it was meant to have a character before the initial bracket, so the correct answer would have returned...

  • RE: Performing union data with null values

    The answer is right, but the explanation is wrong, as it says the answer is 0,1,2,NULL,NULL

    If that had been one of the options I might have got it wrong as...

  • RE: Complex foreign key

    Took me a while to work this out, as I thought the lower-case l for the first column was a number 1. Would have been better with different column names!

    After...

  • RE: Installation Passwords

    I can never pass up the opportunity to post this link

    http://xkcd.com/936/[/url]

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    Aaron N. Cutshall (6/6/2016)


    However, I do understand the intent of the QotD however it was presented.

    What was that intent, to encourage sloppy coding?

  • RE: Beginning a CTE

    I knew what was intended but the correct answer surely should be "No, Never".

    The semi-colon is not required to begin the CTE; it is required to terminate the previous...

  • RE: Inserting XML

    I guessed the first option (about the = sign) as there was obviously something wrong with the question (the SQL will run fine) so I guessed that the typo was...

  • RE: REPLICATE

    Had to resort to running some SQL for this one, as I don't carry the ascii table in my head 😉

  • RE: Vardecimal

    The correct answer is "there is no vardecimal datatype".

    It is not a different data type, it is a different way of physically storing the decimal data type.

    It's also deprecated in...

  • RE: More Unicode

    This is a disgrace I demand you give me the points that have been stolen from me in fact I want double points as compensation for the distress caused I'm...

  • RE: A Token Escape

    I didn't know, so chose "I don't know", but was told that apparently I did know after all.

    Obviously I'm cleverer than I thought.

  • RE: More TRY_CONVERTing numbers

    Although the documentation states that conversion of an int value that is too long will give an error if converting to nvarchar, but * if converting to varchar, it does...

  • RE: Getting index columns

    Currently showing a 99% success rate?!?

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