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Hah! got it wrong. Next time I need to not interpret the word "source" as "destination".
November 4, 2024 at 3:18 pm
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...
June 1, 2024 at 4:12 pm
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...
August 16, 2023 at 1:20 pm
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...
July 17, 2023 at 11:58 am
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.
January 23, 2023 at 2:30 pm
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...
September 21, 2022 at 6:56 pm
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...
September 21, 2022 at 12:57 pm
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...
August 31, 2022 at 12:43 pm
"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...
April 11, 2022 at 12:24 pm
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...
December 17, 2021 at 2:13 pm
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...
March 1, 2021 at 1:39 pm
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...
December 15, 2020 at 1:31 pm
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...
December 7, 2020 at 12:39 pm
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...
October 26, 2020 at 12:27 pm
Fun question to start the week. Fun working with negative numbers in functions; one always needs to think a bit out of the box.
April 27, 2020 at 11:54 am
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