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  • April 20, 2008 at 12:32 pm

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    David.Poole (4/20/2008)

    If you are in the position where people will voluntarily use you as the first point of contact for database information rather than the last then you are probably an exceptional DBA.

    I think that's probably the best summary of an "Exceptional DBA" that I've ever heard.

    --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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