• I was in the middle of a huge rant on books but see that George and Tom covered some good amount of what I had to say on this subject. Anything I might add would be more of an ad hominem attack on the attitudes I perceive most SQL Server or SQL authors to have, so I'll just let all of that go.

    --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)