• Heh... and I was too sleepy this morning... I shouldn't post when I'm pooped...

    It is still a bit of a half cross join (more specifically, a triangular join and does an index scan of 76 rows) but it certainly isn't 65,536.  My mistake.  That would also explain why Richard's is still faster...

    --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.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)