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   Gene Wirchenko to jmostert@xs4all.nl   
   Re: SSE Weird Day of the Week Result   
   08 Feb 11 12:36:39   
   
   XPost: microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming   
   From: genew@ocis.net   
      
   On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:52:59 +0100, Jeroen Mostert   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2011-02-08 01:26, Gene Wirchenko wrote:   
   >>       I am continuing with the textbook I have been studying off and   
   >> on.  I found an interesting error in the date/time functions.   
   >   
   >I hope you mean an error in how the textbook uses them, not the functions   
   >themselves. Standard functions/libraries rarely contain gross errors because   
   >they would have been found and fixed by now.   
      
        Ouch.  Yes, I meant the textbook.   
      
   [snip]   
      
   >The implicit conversion between INT and DATETIME is a misfeature that can   
   >easily trip you up, but there's no error in the functions.   
      
        I thought it might be that.  Misfeature is right.   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Gene Wirchenko   
      
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