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I posted a question here on Meta Stack Exchange, or on a per-site meta, regarding a bug I found in the system. I got no comments, or a few comments stating that this is a legitimate bug (and not by design). However, it's been quite a long time, and no official response was ever posted there.
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I'm trying to create a view with an ORDER BY clause. I have create it successfully on SQL Server 2012 SP1, but when I try to re-create it on SQL Server 2008 R2, I get this error:
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure TopUsers, Line 11Incorrect
syntax near 'OFFSET'.
The code to create the...
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It was I who salted the earth around your flower deck. -- (if you want to sound formal)
It was me that/who salted the earth around your flower deck. -- (which sounds less formal)
Both are correct, but because it's a test/question in a grammar book, and grammar books usually prefer t...
Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on conquered cities to symbolize a curse on their re-inhabitation. It originated as a symbolic practice in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages.
== Destroying cities ==
The custom of purifying or consecrating a destroyed city with salt and cursing anyone who dared to rebuild it was widespread in the ancient Near East, but historical accounts are unclear as to what the sowing of salt meant in that process.Various Hittite and Assyrian texts speak of ceremonially strewing salt...
