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The SQL Server Crossword

Enjoy our latest crossword puzzle and see if you can solve all the clues. The key will be posted in the comments tomorrow.

Across

2. Create a hash of a value.

5. Add a query hint to the whole query.

10. Open an XML document as if it was a table or view.

12. Billy the kid.

14. Immediate unreliability

16. a.b.c.______

17. The memory where index and data pages go swimming.

18. Required to sort the output of a select statement.

19. DOS

20. One copy of each row.

21. How am I going to grant you permissions without actually granting you permissions?

Down

1. You probably aren't using this to store your code.

3. Geometric or Geographic

4. Login or User

6. Time to be back up. abbr.

7. Comma

8. Evaluate the right-hand source once for each row in the left and return a row regardless of if there is a result.

9. Permission required to run a select statement.

11. Doorways to SQL Server

13. No, a 50gb DB is not one of these.

15. Create a new table containing the data from the query.

19. Loop through a result set.

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Sometimes we need to share a variable or session state across different batchs in same session. For example, the second part of the below script will return an error since @i is not available in that conext.

 DECLARE @i INT = 100 SELECT @i GO SELECT @i

Which of the below options can be used to store values in a SQL Session (SQL 2016), so that it can be accessed in all the batches of a script in the same session?

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Yesterday's Question (by Steve Jones):

What's the datename return value? My instance default language is US English

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Answer: 02

Explanation:

The Datename function returns a value based on the language and parameter. In this case, the return is the day of the month. Datename() will return the numerical value.

The SET LANGUAGE for the variable declaration sets the date, which is stored as an integer value. The SET LANGUAGE for the SELECT doesn't change this until the end of the batch.

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