So what did I learn today from this post ? absolutely nothing about SQL server , and it that doesn't take a preacher to preach .
Funny... looking back at your posts, I don't see much that teaches about SQL Server.
--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.