I feel cheated.

I believe that all features mentioned will indeed continue to be available for SQL Server 2014, but removed in an unspecified future version.

As someone mentioned earlier,...

This answer given as correct is absolute rubbish!

The reliability of SSC is slowly going down the pan.

KAS

Thanks alot to Dinesh, Tom and Hany for taking the trouble to answer my little question. Odd that I hadn't come across it before, but there we are!

All the best

Ken.

I have worked with SQL Server on and off for many years, but I don't think I recall ever seeing "ORDER BY [number]" as it appears in this question.

Could some...

Just a small point to watch, Naseer, if you don't mind - PRINCIPLE is actually a noun, and not the correct word in this connection. The word you wanted is...

Sorry, but this question is invalid, as the author has misunderstood the statements on Subqueries in the MSDN Libraries.

Please re-award points accordingly.

Kenneth Spencer

I feel sure that this was a misleading question, as five, not four, of the answers were valid.

The reputation of these questions is once again dragged through the gutter.

Kenneth Spencer

This question is illogical in structure.

One cannot say "Can the following script be made to run ..." and then offer the choices True and False.

For future reference, this type of...

Just a bit too US-centric again.

What is Labour Day anyway?

You have an international membership, so you need to be less parochial!

Ken

As a matter of fact, SQL Server 2005 copes with this very well, provided that the data type is changed to DATETIME.

It would seem that in SQL Server 2005 at...

Once again we are down to the process whereby questions are vetted and approved or disapproved for publication. This must be improved.

Kenneth Spencer

One would expect that database designers and programmers would have expertise in logic. That being so, why was the answer deemed to be "10, 12"?

You cannot have two answers to...

If the writer of the commentary on the answer to this question were one of my students, and if he were not named Arthur Fuller, I would submit his name...

Be careful!

The question did not mention SQL Server.

I believe that you can use a trigger in Oracle (wash your mouth out, Spencer!) to permit a foreign key to reference a...

Why is the number of errors in Questions of the Day so great?

How are we supposed to interpret typographical errors?

I have yet to build the stored procedure SP_ESP so I...