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  • Reply To: Cloud Sources for the Data Migration Assistant

    Hah! got it wrong. Next time I need to not interpret the word "source" as "destination".

  • Reply To: On Being an "Expert"

    Grant, even though you don't like the title, you might consider it a compliment that so many DB Admins and Engineers consider you an  expert. The best experts are not...

  • Reply To: Restoring With Standby

    I don't mind being wrong (gotta learn some way) but had a devil of a time finding exactly where it was noted STANDBY couldn't be used if an upgrade was...

  • Reply To: Refreshing a View

    Neil Burton wrote:

    Good question but there's a typo that will catch people out.

    On the plus side, the error is not replicated in the Explanation section. Nice question to start the week...

  • Reply To: Case expression with NULL

    These are questions that reminds one to read all the documentation for a statement. Which is why I am one of the many that selected NULL as my answer. Great question.

  • Reply To: Another Conversion Question

    Ed B wrote:

    Bob Razumich wrote:

    Fun with Steve's answer:

    His comments on the correct answer has a somewhat minor error, but for the fun of all of us, I'm not going to state it...

  • Reply To: Another Conversion Question

    Fun with Steve's answer:

    His comments on the correct answer has a somewhat minor error, but for the fun of all of us, I'm not going to state it here, but...

  • Reply To: Unlimited PTO

    It was interesting both reading Andy's post from 5 years back, as well as the comments. After all, who knew how our lives would radically change in the interim.

    Of the...

  • Reply To: Moving Away From MySQL

    "Would you learn MySQL for a new job? Or are you a die-hard, this is my platform kind of person?"

    I think we would all learn whatever we needed to for...

  • Reply To: The Tech of My Youth

    This could be fun...

    The first company I worked for that was not mainframe dependent used Novell Netware for their internal network, and BTrieve for the relational database for the initial...

  • Reply To: The Future Synonym

    Interesting feature that I didn't know about before. I would suppose it would make it easier to select data from a table with a long, confusing or hard to spell...

  • Reply To: A Minor Problem

    Great QOTD. I saw it right away thanks more to the clue that there was only one table in the database. Otherwise I'm pretty sure that I would have missed...

  • Reply To: The default ORDER BY

    I really thought this was going to be a trick question. I decided that the trick was that it was not a trick. We all tend to overthink these questions...

  • Reply To: A Strange Comparison

    Wolfram Kraus wrote:

    What is the difference between the second and the third answer?

    Well, nothing reading the text for both answers. The fact that both answers were used is probably interesting in...

  • Reply To: Rounding Fun

    Fun question to start the week. Fun working with negative numbers in functions; one always needs to think a bit out of the box.

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