Home Forums Article Discussions Article Discussions by Author Discuss content posted by Randal Burke Faking Multidimensional Arrays in T-SQL made easy! RE: Faking Multidimensional Arrays in T-SQL made easy!

  • November 4, 2008 at 5:22 am

    #893545

    Nah... not true... in SQL Server 2005 and up, there's basically no limit to passing arrays...

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63003/

    The author just didn't go far enough in showing how to use the EAV tables he made in his examples as a 3 dimensional array. Most people blow a couple of gears for anything above a 3 dimensional array so 3 dimensions is a good place to stop. People that need more than that will be able to figure it out quite easily.

    Randal, nice job at "standing" up an array in "memory". It's a simple concept that far to many folks have forgotten and some have never learned. It's good to see it in print.

    --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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