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Jeff Moden
Posted Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:21 PM


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"RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for "Row-By-Agonizing-Row".

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Very nice solution and a great explanation for the solution.

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Posted Sunday, November 15, 2009 10:26 AM


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Thanks Adi... it's an old solution and it's not mine. I've just never seen anyone explain it before and thought an explanation was long overdue especially since it's been coming up a lot on the forums, again. A lot of the "answer" posts have included a substantial amount of RBAR and, of course, that drove me to write the article.

--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."

For better, quicker answers on T-SQL questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/

For better answers on performance questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/
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Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 2:03 AM


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Another (very good) example of something that initially appears to be a horrendous problem having an elegant and relatively simple solution.

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Nice one jeff.

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Hi
Does this simple replace not work then?

REPLACE(@SomeText, '  ',' ')

which is actually :

REPLACE(@SomeText, '[space][space]','[space]')

i.e. replace two spaces with one..

This seams to work fine for me, but I could well be missing something?

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Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 2:50 AM


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Jeff

Nice article - I just hope that when I *finally* get round to writing mine then it's anywhere near one tenth as good as yours generally are...

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Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 3:13 AM
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Richard Briggs (11/16/2009)
Hi
Does this simple replace not work then?

REPLACE(@SomeText, '  ',' ')

which is actually :

REPLACE(@SomeText, '[space][space]','[space]')

i.e. replace two spaces with one..

This seams to work fine for me, but I could well be missing something?


sure, it works. if you only have 2 spaces it will work. the problem on the article however is for when u have a random amount of spaces.
with your example you would have to manually add a REPLACE for each extra space

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I think you need to try this out ... the above comment (sorry dant12) is not correct:

It looks like the following will replace up to six spaces
REPLACE(@SomeText, '  ',' ')

And the following will sort the rest out :
REPLACE(REPLACE(@SomeText, '  ',' '),'  ',' ')

try this one :
DECLARE @sample VARCHAR(1000)
SET @sample= 'ALKSDKLKJ                                         LSJD ASD  LSD S D    DJD D D D   D  D  D'

SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(@sample,'  ',' '),'  ',' ')

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Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 3:27 AM


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Actually typo in posted code, the second REPLACE is also restricted to 6 spaces, I wonder why?

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