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  • March 18, 2008 at 6:41 am

    #790767

    Doing my morning article "skimming" and saw this one. In the "Conclusion" it's stated "This way I avoid using a GROUP BY "... and the example right above it has two CTE's... and each has a GROUP BY in it. I admit that's it's just a "skim" so far (I'll read it in depth tonight), but just exactly what do you mean by you avoided the use of GROUP BY?

    --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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