I have to agree with khelloufsofiane and others: the answers given in your "correct" response did not seem to co-incide with those which appear in the documentation.

Either you are, or...

I agree wholeheartedly with Daniel Fountain. SQLServerCentral's Question of the Day really should not be about trickery.

I entered "No", but at the back of my mind, I was considering whether...

Yes, I suppose I should have said "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year". But like Marlon, I was diverted by the "Happy Holidays" term.

Kenneth Spencer

FAO Jeff.Mason:

Here goes, I am going to say it Jeff - yes indeed, it is an American centric question, and the date was also in American format.

I got the points...

Thanks for your reply Tom ...

I wouldn't wish to ruin the Christmas Spirit by arguing too dramatically with your post. But I would say that the civilised are not restricted...

I have complained before about the fact that many of your non-SQLserver questions are far too centred on the American and assumes that everyone is American and lives in...

Having criticised so many questions for their errors, I would like to say that this is a really useful question, and raises so many issues of good query design.

To whomsoever...

Surely the correct answer is "No" ?

Points please. (And no more remarks about wanting points that we should have been awarded please!)

Kenneth Spencer

I'm English, and I pay enough tax already without having to think of paying for BO, thanks. (Colour, licence, cancelled, marvellous, manoeuvre, centre, harbour, paediatrics, theatre, aesthetics, et cetera and...

Yet another unforgivable mistake by a question setter.

Let's hang, draw & quarter the lot of 'em.

Kenneth Spencer

PS: point back please.

Just one question occurs to me:

In your discussion of your question, when you state the answer, you state that a DGP is used to insert meaningless data into a...

Thanks alot for the positive reply, Steve.

Regards

Ken

Check your answer properly before submitting a question, because your so-called "correct answer" is wrong.

And so:

1. Go to the back of the class;

2. stand in the corner;

3. And wear a...

Yet another error. I won't tolerate any mealy-mouthed excuses, such as those which we have experienced in the past.

Go to the very bottom of the class, and stay there...

Come off your high horse, Hugo.

The points are incidental: The simple fact is that the question in question contained an error, be it typographical or material. If it was the...