RE: Performance Tuning: Concatenation Functions and Some Tuning Myths

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January 2, 2008 at 4:48 am

Thanks for the feedback, Martin. Yeah, I have a grand love for such 3rd party shenanigan's myself... my favorite is loading data from a table into a Temp Table, opening a cursor on the Temp Table, and then inserting one row at a time into another table from the cursor with an explicit transaction and no rollback handler. Ya just gotta wonder where some of those folks learned T-SQL.

--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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