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  • November 11, 2008 at 5:03 am

    #896866

    Oh my... I just remembered where the heck such a requirement for all positive numbers may have come from... PeopleSoft software. Seems like the last folks that I knew that needed to interface with it also went through this.

    --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.

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)