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  • May 20, 2013 at 3:07 pm

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    erics44 (5/20/2013)

    i start my sproc and then get straight into writing the code that performs the tasks that the sproc needs to do, declaring the variables queries [font="Arial Black"]loops [/font]what ever.

    The first thing that I'd learn is the paradigm shift necessary to avoid 99.9% of all explicit loops and some of the hidden RBAR methods. See my signature line below for definitions of both as a starting point.

    --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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