• One-way encryption and comparison is pretty darned fast. Also, as a DBA, I take it as my job to ensure that the data is safe, encrypted or not. I can't do that in the so-called "middle tier" which frequently ends up being application code.

    --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)