Datatypes In Your Mind–Question Of The Day

My latest question Datatypes In Your Mind is live today and it’s generated quite the discussion. I wrote here about writing the question. I think my mistake was not writing the wrong answer explanations. Had I done that maybe I would have caught an assumption I made that lead to the discussion. Lesson learned, at […]

Another Question Of the Day

Yesterday I submitted a new question of the day based on the best idea generator you can find – something that went wrong at work. It had the added merit of having an error message that didn’t clearly state the problem. Once you have the problem and the answer then it’s just a matter of […]

Writing a Question Of The Day–More Notes

Today I wrote another question based on an error message. I included the error message in the question this time and it’s reasonably helpful, but the question text will, depending on how you read it, point you to the one good answer or convince you the answer must be somewhere else. I’m guessing it will […]

It's Not All About The Keys–Question Of The Day

My latest question is live today, called It’s Not All About The Keys. It’s a three pointer, if score matters to you, and that also indicates it’s not an easy or obvious question. I think it’s an ok question. Re-reading it today and reading the comments I still find it really hard to put in […]

Simple And Amusing Question Of The Day

I was working on a script today to check the range of some values and trying to take the time to handle edge cases, even though I don’t expect them (edge cases!) and ran across something I knew but hadn’t thought about. Good fodder for a question, but not a complicated question, at least if […]

Writing My Next Question Of The Day

I ran into a simple error last week and saved it to convert to a question. It’s another one where if you saw the error, it’s an easy fix. Minus the error it challenges you to visualize and understand how thing work. Overall I spent about an hour on it over the weekend and reviewing […]

Follow Up To A Questionable Trigger

This question of the day didn’t turn out well at all – required too big a leap the way it was written to get to the key answer. Four were easy, one was not. I confused the issue with a less than great trigger – not deliberately, sadly. The lesson – learning it again – […]

A Questionable Trigger–Question Of the Day

A Questionable Trigger is the SQLServerCentral Question of the Day today. It’s my latest and perhaps the hardest. Here is the early score: The comments on it are so so. It’s a tough and tricky question. More on that in a day or two. While you wait, go try it!

Follow Up on The Unusable User–Question Of The Day

I posted about one of my questions of the day called The Unusable User last week and wanted to return to post some final stats and thoughts on how it turned out. First the stats: Overall the comments on the question were good, especially about the style. I’m not sure what the style […]

Can’t See The Forest For the Logins–Question of the Day

My latest question is live today – Can’t See The Forest For the Logins is worth 2 points if you’re playing for score. It’s another question where you have to infer some to get the answer. So far it’s proving to be a tough question, be sure to read the comments after you try it. […]