Thanks for that. Unfortunately, I'm working from a 2008 box tonight and I can't open 2008R2 execution plans.
Someone will be able to help in the morning.
--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.