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  • RE: How long is a NULL?

    One of the more prominent MVPs - while he failed to react to this thread - has provided a comprehensive article relating to ISNULL and COALESCE: http://sqlmag.com/t-sql/coalesce-vs-isnull. After reading it,...

  • RE: Understanding T-SQL Expression Short-Circuiting

    Nice article and nice work on the floating-point exception bug.

    Now, to give this dead horse the final whiplash, I was intrigued by the IN handling and modified the set...

  • RE: A Faster BETWEEN Dates

    Michael Ebaya (11/3/2010)


    happycat59 (11/3/2010)


    Not only is the original article of interest (and it is great to have someone prepared to write about their findings...thanks Terry)

    Does no one actually care the...

  • RE: How long is a NULL?

    Adding a numeric value turns the expression into an int because of type precedence rules. The fact that 'abcd' does not readily convert into an int does not stop this...

  • RE: How long is a NULL?

    The documentation is slightly different; 2005 BOL says that when "replacement_value" is returned, it will be implicitly converted to the type of "check_expression" while 2000 BOL just demands both expressions...

  • RE: syscolumns names

    Considering the simplicity and apparent history of working reliably in several places, I found a surprisingly large number of finer points in the submitted code. The asymmetry in trimming was...

  • RE: Custom Rounding and Truncation of Numbers in MDX

    This article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding explains various rounding techniques.

    After reading the Wiki article, my guess is that MDX uses it because it is the only deterministic method which is essentially non-biased, also...

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