Fraggle (9/7/2008)
It has always been my policy to used functions to replace repetative coding. Why do I need to continually type to code out to verify that a customer is active when I can put it in a function and type out less than a line of code to do it. To me this is really the best use of a function.
It may indeed server you well, for now.:doze:
There are a number of articles at SSC which handle set based operations and try to explain the issues with hidden joins, row by row operations (rbar), ...
I'd prefer a view over a function, because it still points the problem solving dba by nature to join analysis and troubleshooting.
A single function in your query may be easy to detect and analyse, but the number of functions you use in a single query can be huge, now figure the out the troubleshooting part.
Johan
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