RE: Advice for Newcomers – SQLServerCentral

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December 12, 2017 at 12:41 pm

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1. Learn enough about the problem you're trying to solve to actually be able to ask a question about it.
2.. You're not "entitled". Eventually, you have to learn to stop depending on the kindness of strangers and do it yourself.
3. Learn how to get the current date and time. 😉

--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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