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  • September 13, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    #871480

    Nice article, Jack... good code example, too!

    On the subject of "Why the hell would they do that?", I've found that Microsoft set's the default for databases to ANSI_PADDING OFF using the SELECT DATABASEPROPERTYEX('dbname','IsAnsiPaddingEnabled') code snippet. It's QA and SMS that have it turned on in the connection properties of each.

    --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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