Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 08/28/05 19:21

christopher.secord@gmail.com (christopher.secord@gmail.com) writes:
> I think that what threw me off was that the database even allowed me to
> do both. I was trying hard to think of some reason why I would want to
> do that and thought I'd go ahead and ask here.

I guess the reason that SQL Server did not say anything is that no
one thought the condition was worth the extra piece of code need to
add such a check.

Just because something is possible to do with warning or error message,
does not mean that it is a meaningful or a harmless thing to do.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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