Question of the Day: Check, Please

This one is live today, it’s about Powershell and restoring databases, based on some scripting I had been working on. It should be an easy question for you – how’s that for a challenge?

New Question of the Day – Pounds of Formatting Fun

It’s been a while since I wrote a question of the day for SQLServerCentral. I wrote Pounds of Formatting Fun after running through the FORMAT function a few times as part of exam prep because it’s something I rarely(!) use. I’ll have to write more soon, crafting a good/useful question is fun.

SSIS Column Export-Question of the Day

An SSIS question! How’s that for a change of pace? SSIS Column Export is, as you might well surmise, about the export column transform. I used it recently to export a kazillion or so images and thought it would be a nice, middle of the road question. Give it a try.

Project Moriarty

This past weekend I started writing notes for what I’m calling Project Moriarty, what I hope will be five questions in a row that have to be solved individually, but then based on information in the questions and correct answers will lead those that complete the challenge to solve the overall challenge posed by Moriarty. […]

The Case Of the Downward Pointing Arrow-Question of the Day

The Case Of the Downward Pointing Arrow is written as an abbreviated mystery, Sherlock Holmes style. Had to laugh at the comment about me being Moriarty in disguise! No one has so far figured out the identity of the client mentioned in the question.

A Deeply Planted Seed-Question of the Day

Another trivia question today, this one about figuring out which of the options provided has a particular negative identity seed. See if you can get A Deeply Planted Seed right and earn one point for the effort!

What is 268435456?

What is 268435456? is the Friday question of the day. It’s a trivia question, but maybe an interesting one for all that. Better than 50% getting it right, not bad for a Friday question!

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