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  • March 25, 2014 at 2:42 pm

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    n.arley.dealey (3/25/2014)

    Premature optimization is the root of all evil!

    I’m not a DBA. In fact, it’s been a long time since I’ve been a developer, but learning the little aphorism above, internalizing it and living by it VASTLY increased my productivity when I was.

    After all, if it’s not correct, optimizing it only increases the velocity of the errors.

    Generating more bad output faster is not generally considered to be constructive. At least not in my book.

    The trouble is that a lot of people don't understand the differences between "premature optimization" (which I agree is the root of all evil) and just writing good 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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