June 24, 2008 at 9:57 am
It's answer is wrong!!
Select EmpName, DateOfLeaving from Employees order by DateOfLeaving desc, EmpName asc
This query returns descending Order of DateOfLeaving.
It is so clear!!
wrong answer.!!
Hang Deok Cho.
hyemang@gmail.com
DBA
June 24, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Great question. But I want my points because only the second option was correct and the explanation says that both option 2 and 3 where ok. I don't consider option 3 as a valid answer.
Thanks, Marcos.
June 24, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I don't think Steve is going to give us our points back. I'm not even sure if he's aware that we are all complaining about the second incorrect answer to a question in a week. As a matter of fact, both times the next day's email still had the incorrect answer in it.
June 24, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Steve must be off for a couple of days. The newsletter was published today, but I didn't get it by email. The editorial was by Tony. After he sees this tirade over a trivial error, he might just quit having a QotD.
June 24, 2008 at 3:19 pm
If their reaction is that childish, then where's the professionalism associated with publishing a website of this caliber? You can't be a pro and then react to every user disappointment in your site as if you're just going to take your ball and go home. The one and only correct response is to rectify the error, add a few hundred thousand mea culpas, and move on, none the worse for wear.
Anything less than that and now emotion is in control of the website instead of logic and reason. Right?
Steve
(aka smunson)
:):):)
Tom Garth (6/24/2008)
Steve must be off for a couple of days. The newsletter was published today, but I didn't get it by email. The editorial was by Tony. After he sees this tirade over a trivial error, he might just quit having a QotD.
Steve?(aka sgmunson)?:) 🙂 :)?
Health & Nutrition
Rent Servers for Income (picks and shovels strategy)
June 24, 2008 at 3:42 pm
June 24, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I another thing is that instead of complaining about wrong answers to QotD and demanding points back because the answer(s) were wrong (as in this case) or the question was poorly written (i.e. the user didn't understand it), they could just post a simple a message that indicated "Oh, I got it wrong, but it may have been I didn't understand it right" or "Oh, I got it wrong and it appears that one or more of the 'correct' answers may be wrong." and leave it at that.
Someone talked about professionalism? How about the users showing some as well. It doesn't appear to be very professional to complain like some have here in a very public forum. Remember, it is quite easy to find people and what they have posted by just using Google.
And to set the record straight, I am just as guilty as others having done the same on a couple of questions myself. I can say I haven't complained here, as I thought better after reading the question, the answers, and seeing that they were checkboxes instead of radio buttons. Just a slight clue that something may be a miss. I have seen a question with checkboxes that didn't have at least 2 correct responses.
😎
June 24, 2008 at 9:18 pm
The Suicide Hotline was busy, what's a maniac to do! I didn't get my point back, so I am suffering depression. I'll try slicing my wrists this time, maybe that'll work.:crazy:
June 24, 2008 at 10:28 pm
U people earned more than one point by posting your fustration over the question. So why complain? 😉
June 24, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I agree.
Only the second option will give the desired result.
Below is the set of results we'll get after executing all the 3 options:
create table #temp1
(
EmpName nvarchar(200),
DateOfLeaving Datetime
)
insert into #temp1 values('Abc', '10 Oct 1999')
insert into #temp1 values('Bcd', '11 Nov 1998')
insert into #temp1 values('Ccd', null)
insert into #temp1 values('Dcd', '10 Aug 2000')
insert into #temp1 values('Eed', null)
Select * from #temp1
/*
1
*/
Select EmpName, DateOfLeaving
from #temp1
order by DateOfLeaving desc, EmpName asc
/*
EmpName DateOfLeaving
Dcd 2000-08-10 00:00:00.000
Abc 1999-10-10 00:00:00.000
Bcd 1998-11-11 00:00:00.000
Ccd NULL
Eed NULL
*/
/*
2
*/
Select EmpName, DateOfLeaving
from #temp1
order by DateOfLeaving, EmpName asc
/*
EmpName DateOfLeaving
Ccd NULL
Eed NULL
Bcd 1998-11-11 00:00:00.000
Abc 1999-10-10 00:00:00.000
Dcd 2000-08-10 00:00:00.000
*/
/*
3
*/
Select EmpName, DateOfLeaving
from #temp1
order by isnull(DateOfLeaving,'10/10/9999'),EmpName asc
/*
EmpName DateOfLeaving
Bcd 1998-11-11 00:00:00.000
Abc 1999-10-10 00:00:00.000
Dcd 2000-08-10 00:00:00.000
Ccd NULL
Eed NULL
*/
Drop table #temp1
June 24, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Anirban Paul (6/24/2008)
U people earned more than one point by posting your fustration over the question. So why complain? 😉
I don't understand what you mean. My posting, 2 days ago, was about the 8th complaint, and my answer is still marked as wrong. Doesn't this mean that I've yet to have my point credited? How do I earn 'more than one point' with it?
June 25, 2008 at 12:01 am
I also got surprised when after answering it says me U R Wrong. Then i tried the same with my own example and found I was right.
June 25, 2008 at 12:02 am
Correct Ans is only option #2, please see below queries. Output does not match with the desired output of question. PLEASE REMOVE "The solution should be:" FROM THE QUESTION. Such question must not be kept... THIS IS NOT FAIR...
Create Table Employees
(EmpName varchar(50), DateOfLeaving datetime)
Insert into Employees values ('Abc', '10/Oct/1999')
Insert into Employees values ('Bcd', '11/Nov/1998')
Insert into Employees values ('Ccd', Null)
Insert into Employees values ('Dcd', '10/Aug/2000')
Insert into Employees values ('Eed', Null)
select EmpName, DateOfLeaving from Employees order by IsNull(DateOfLeaving,'10/10/9999'), empName
Select EmpName, DateOfLeaving from Employees order by DateOfLeaving desc, EmpName asc
output of above two select statements are :
EmpName DateOfLeaving
Bcd 11/11/1998
Abc 10/10/1999
Dcd 8/10/2000
Ccd NULL
Eed NULL
EmpName DateOfLeaving
Dcd 8/10/2000
Abc 10/10/1999
Bcd 11/11/1998
Ccd NULL
Eed NULL
June 25, 2008 at 1:15 am
smunson (6/24/2008)
If their reaction is that childish, then where's the professionalism associated with publishing a website of this caliber? You can't be a pro and then react to every user disappointment in your site as if you're just going to take your ball and go home.
Please don't judge someone on what they haven't yet done - especially when there's no legitimate hint that it even will be done.
Steve hasn't stopped the QOTD. He hasn't threatened to stop the QOTD. He has said there's a lot more work than is apparent in sanity checking a QOTD. He has said the amount of SSC's daily time that can be devoted to the QOTDs is less than is necessary to guarantee problem-free questions. He has said that if we want decent questions then more of us should step up to the mark and propose some.
Semper in excretia, sumus solum profundum variat
June 25, 2008 at 2:42 am
brewmanz (6/24/2008)
Anirban Paul (6/24/2008)
U people earned more than one point by posting your fustration over the question. So why complain? 😉I don't understand what you mean. My posting, 2 days ago, was about the 8th complaint, and my answer is still marked as wrong. Doesn't this mean that I've yet to have my point credited? How do I earn 'more than one point' with it?
The QotD awards points for correct answers and you also get 1 point every time you post to the forums. Hence you've gained points by noting that the answer is wrong.
Derek
Viewing 15 posts - 106 through 120 (of 138 total)
You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Login to reply