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  • September 21, 2011 at 9:16 pm

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    ken.trock (9/21/2011)

    Jeff, congratulations on the award. I know everytime I need a solution to a database programming problem my well trained programmer brain wants to construct a loop. Then I think about you and your teachings keeping us out of RBAR!

    Ken

    Thanks, Ken. Going back and forth between the procedural and declarative paradigms is one of the toughest things there is to do especially when someone like yourself is really good on the procedural side of the world. Glad to see that folks are mastering the shift between the two. Thanks for letting me be a part of all that.

    --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)