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  • June 14, 2018 at 9:30 pm

    #1994072

    We solved this problem by creating a persisted computed column that contains no punctuation and no spaces.  When the user types something to search for, we also strip that of punctuation and spaces and then do the compare.  Makes for very nice SARGable predicates.

    --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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