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  • July 24, 2008 at 6:05 am

    #847657

    Thanks for taking the time for that feedback, Hugo. I appreciate it.

    Running totals are no excuse for using cursors... not even for display.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/61716/

    So far as the "bin packing" thing goes, I too am remiss... I said I think I know a set based way to do it and I just haven't gotten back to it. My appologies to you and myself because it's definitely an interesting problem and sounds like a lot of fun.

    --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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