CELKO
You do not know how to program in SQL to the point you are danger to your employer and the public. Please think about that.
Joe, you do not know how to read and interpret a question. The OP was not asking how to improve the function, nor was there anything in there remotely asking for your opinion. Do you really think the use of a UDF qualifies someone as a "danger" to the public at large? And if your nostalgia is so easily coerced by simple things like @i, why don't you find a FORTRAN or COBOL forum to annoy, where you can re-live your presently irrelevant glory days?
Greg
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