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  • RE: The T-SQL Quiz

    Hello Igor,

    It's not a bug. The problem is that you are relying on implicit conversion that have no contract whatsoever. The surprising results you got caused by the difference implicit...

  • RE: The T-SQL Quiz

    Hello Jeff,

    The results are almost identical, plus or minus 1 second. It does seem from this unscientific test that the varchar(8) version is a tiny bit faster than varchar(10) when running against...

  • RE: The T-SQL Quiz

    Hello Igor,

    2.b Even in your example you should be surprized, why charindex returns 2, and not

    select CHARINDEX('.',

  • RE: The T-SQL Quiz

    Hello Robert,

    Yes, I see it in the index. But it is almost impossible to find by searching for it - and because I did not know what the operator was...

  • RE: The T-SQL Quiz

    Hello Jeff,

    Thanks for your reply and thanks again for the excellent example you provided. I will run the tests you propose and let you know the outcome.

    webrunner

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    webrunner

  • RE: The T-SQL Quiz

    Hello Igor,

    Thanks for your reply. Here are my replies.

    1. "I did it without % because I...

  • RE: The T-SQL Quiz

    This is great. I mentioned you in one of my other posts, a reply to Sergiy, and I hope you read my comments.

    By the way, I don't know if this...

  • RE: The T-SQL Quiz

    Thanks!

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    webrunner

  • RE: The T-SQL Quiz

    Hello Sergiy,

    I agree with you in general, with the following elaboration. I think it depends on what the interview questions are asking. I wouldn't dismiss someone who got an answer...

  • RE: The T-SQL Quiz

    Here is mine. I did it without % because I couldn't find the mod function by name in Books Online and did not want to give in and go to...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 30 May 2007

    I completely agree and did the same thing! I have to wonder whether there is something wrong with this approach that would preclude from being used as the behavior of...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 25 May 2007

    Ha ha!

    Sample dialogue using the 'B' answer:

    BOSS: I see you are querying an offline cube in Analysis Services. Can I access your cube as well to perform some analysis?

    DBA:...

  • RE: The IT Cowboy

    That's a good point about Apple. They certainly have that reputation, and it has been furthered by a jealously loyal user base.

    How much of that reputation is based on a...

  • RE: Question of the Day for 21 May 2007

    Since the query returns the number and the names (if you run it in Query Analyzer the number shows up for you in the status bar anyway), I didn't see...

  • RE: The IT Cowboy

    My completely anecdotally based guess is that it will be at least a generation (20-30 years) before anything like real 100% automation exists for an entire company's IT infrastructure -...

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