• Lowell,

    If you want to "continue the tradition" on these short articles, please feel free to use the "SQL Spackle" idea and the quote from "Phil McCraken". I've found it really helps set expectations that these short articles that Steve has been requesting are mostly "single topic" and not meant to be complete solutions by themselves.

    --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.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)