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  • May 10, 2013 at 4:11 pm

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    SQLRNNR (5/10/2013)

    Jeff Moden (5/10/2013)

    SQLRNNR (5/10/2013)

    Not a huge fan of the expected requirement of the semi-colon at the end of each statement.

    They do come in handy occasionally to help distinguish the end of some big queries or complex queries.

    So does a comment for the next query. 🙂

    one character or N characters

    Sometimes taking the lazy 1 character approach is just so much easier.

    The N characters you're talking about are going to be there anyway because I document my 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.

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