Inn the meantime, can you post your test data generator that you're using? You said the Eirikur got beat up by a flaw in SQL Server so I'd like to see your workaround.
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row. First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code: ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.