RE: Fitting Into RAM – SQLServerCentral

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September 21, 2018 at 8:48 am

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Summer90 - Friday, September 21, 2018 8:12 AM
Reminds me of a previous boss of mine in the 1990s when talking about upgrading our Mainframe.... Throwing hardware at a problem simply masks the problem... bad code.

Agreed except it frequently doesn't even mask the problem because it frequently doesn't actually help. I've also seen it actually make the problem worse when unexpected parallelism comes into play.

--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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