Comments on: SELECT Yourself

By: Sanjeev Kumar

Sanjeev Kumar — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:34:06 +0000

I would be

DROP Database..

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:51:30 +0000

I’d be INSERT INTO dbo.YourMom.

By: SQLBatman

SQLBatman — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:55:07 +0000

well, that explains your fragmented state of mind

By: Jeremiah Peschka

Jeremiah Peschka — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:39:22 +0000

I’d be a SHRINK DATABASE.

By: Tim Ford

Tim Ford — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:00:04 +0000

SELECT D.Lname + ‘, ‘ + D.Fname
FROM DBPros D
INNER JOIN People_Statuses PS ON D.dbp_id = PS.dbp_id
INNER JOIN Statuses S ON PS.status_id = S.status_id
INNER JOIN People_Personalities PP ON D.dbp_id = PP.dbp_id
INNER JOIN Personalities P ON PP.pers_id = P.pers_id
INNER JOIN People_Skillset PS ON D.dbp_id = PS.dbp_id
INNER JOIN SkillSet SS ON PS.skillset_id = SS.skillset_id
INNER JOIN People_ExtracurricularActivities PEA ON D.dbp_id = PEA.dbp_id
INNER JOIN ExtracurricularActivities EA ON PEA.ea_id = EA.ea_id
WHERE
S.status_desc IN (‘chillaxed’, ‘stressed’) –Yes, can be both aka “tech bi-polarism”
AND P.personality_desc = ‘confident’
AND SS.skillset_desc IN (‘DBA_General’, ‘SSIS’, ‘Internals’, ‘DMV’, ‘Development’, ‘TSQL’, ‘VB’, ‘Agent’)
AND EA.ea_desc IN (‘Skiing’, ‘Gaming’, ‘Reading’, ‘Photography’, ‘Volunteerism’, ‘Coffee Snobery’, ‘Zymurgy’, ‘Cooking’, ‘Technogeekery’, ‘Gardening’, ‘Parenting’, ‘Fitness’)

By: wnylibrarian

wnylibrarian — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:32:45 +0000

I’m some sort of stored procedure that would calculate some statistical information to be used for some sort of detailed analysis report for someone. Sort of like baseball data. What is the batting average of left-handed hitters against left-handed pitchers after 9 p.m. when the humidity is <= 58% and the wind is < 9 m.p.h.

sp_ReferenceLibrarian

By: Tim Ford

Tim Ford — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:30:16 +0000

Damn TABS!

By: Tim Ford

Tim Ford — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:29:58 +0000

SELECT D.Lname + ‘, ‘ + D.Fname
FROM DBPros D
INNER JOIN

By: David

David — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:04:23 +0000

Easy – Undocumented sql commands running inside a trigger that deletes uses x0BADCAFE as the first bit of its @sql_handle.

By: Mike Walsh

Mike Walsh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:55:39 +0000

This would be a better “stupid interview question” than the normal “stupid interview questions” (“what kind of vegetable or animal would you be? “)

As for a SQL Query that I would be… I have a lot of interests that while different, have some common themes between them. There are some overarching principles I try to live by.

So I would probably have a CTE of my common principals, values, etc. and then find the commonality between the interests and do a few unioned selects.