RE: Add Many-to-Many all at once

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December 4, 2012 at 5:22 pm

@ Jim,

I'm sure there are other ways to do this but this is about the only place that I actually use GUIDs. I build a sacraficial GUID column in the child table so that can use OUTPUT to match staged input rows to the resulting rows to build the many-to-many bridge table rows. That way I can do a very effective match on the IDENTITY columns to build the bridge table from OUTPUT.

--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.

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