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  • RE: UNION

    Stewart Arthur Campbell (11/4/2013)


    Agree with Paul

    without table definitions, it was difficult to make an informed decision.

    Without table definitions it's impossible to make an informed decision!

    From my testing, it seems that...

  • RE: ACID Properties Question

    For the clearest possible confirmation of this answer, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967576 which states:

    SQL Server maintains the Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability (ACID) property by using the Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) protocol.

    Thank...

  • RE: Back to basics

    JAZZ Master (7/2/2013)


    martin.whitton (7/2/2013)


    Danny Ocean (7/1/2013)


    Good question. But i never feel to use "Bitwise AND" (&) in real working scenario. It will good, if anyone come with some real working...

  • RE: Back to basics

    Danny Ocean (7/1/2013)


    Good question. But i never feel to use "Bitwise AND" (&) in real working scenario. It will good, if anyone come with some real working example. 🙂

    It provides...

  • RE: Float Data Type

    psingla (6/26/2013)


    martin.whitton (6/7/2013)


    palotaiarpad (6/7/2013)


    Whitout running the code it is only a guess.

    Not strictly true.

    "Float" uses binary representations of numbers. Therefore, in this example:

    ......

    It works well when length is 24 or...

  • RE: Lock Escalation Limit

    Thank you for your question. I admit I got it wrong, but I've learnt something new.

    Incidentally, you state that

    [Note: This is for SQL Server 2008 R2 Onwards]

    According to msdn,...

  • RE: Float Data Type

    palotaiarpad (6/7/2013)


    Whitout running the code it is only a guess.

    Not strictly true.

    "Float" uses binary representations of numbers. Therefore, in this example:

    0.115 translates to 0.000111010111000 in binary

    0.075 translates to 0.000100110011001

    0.04 translates...

  • RE: Rounding question

    Jeff Stratford (11/19/2012)


    This reference may help:

    Quoting from the link Jeff cited:

    Because the binary representation of a floating-point number may use one of many legal rounding schemes, it is...

  • RE: Rounding question

    Just out of interest, I tested the rounding of every float value in the sequence 0.65, 1.65, 2.65, etc up to 99.65 using the following code:

    declare

    @a float

    ,@x tinyint;

    declare

    @tbl...

  • RE: Change Management

    I work for a medium-sized company (around 600 employees) where we have never had any formal Change Management.

    We have, however, put in a system for automatically recording code changes after...

  • RE: Maximum number of Databases.

    Just out of interest, does anyone know what would happen if you did try to create the 32768th database?

    Is there an error message for just this occurrence?

    And, no, Philip, please...

  • RE: MERGE with ANSI

    I came across this interesting and helpful blog post by one Hugo Kornelis :-).

    Hence a double thank you to Hugo for an excellent QotD on MERGE following the ANSI standard,...

  • RE: MERGE with ANSI

    Given the MERGE statement below, which is completely correct for SQL Server 2005 and later

    The MERGE statement is only available in SQL Server 2008 and later.

    I don't think this has...

  • RE: Heath Normal Form

    L' Eomot Inversé (11/14/2011)


    martin.whitton (11/14/2011)


    paul s-306273 (11/14/2011)


    ......

    I don't for a moment imagine that knowing that Chris Date suggested that Heath Normal Form night be a more suitable name than Boyce-Codd...

  • RE: Heath Normal Form

    paul s-306273 (11/14/2011)


    I'd like to say I don't like these questions - but looking at the posts I appear to be in the minority!

    Anybody else out there with me?

    I have...

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