As a bit of a side bar, notice that the current number of visits to SSC is precisely "1". The OP hasn't even checked to see if any of the responses on this thread are helpful. 😉
--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.