• Jack Vamvas (1/6/2013)


    Good article. The DBA job is significantly easier in the long run , if discipline and sound priniples are applied.

    Many DBAs are pragmatic - i.e they work in a resource constrained environment - with the number one priority being to keep Production systems alive.

    This leads to short cuts and sometime pain the future

    How do you figure that trying to keep Production systems alive "leads to short cuts"?

    --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)