Home Forums Article Discussions Article Discussions by Author Discuss Content Posted by Jeff Moden Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins RE: Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins

  • December 6, 2007 at 6:59 am

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    Hi Jeff,

    thanks for this article.

    A solution to this problem is to use procedural code (at least for SQL2K).

    Probably not the intention of the author... 😀

    Thanks for the feedback and the code, Christian. Heh, yeah, as you can see, the WHILE loop is much, much faster in this case... using triangular joins would cause a run that you'd probably cancel after 20 minutes...

    I'll be sure to include some "timings" in the upcoming article(s).

    --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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