• drogers (6/10/2009)


    Uh, why would you "not agree with the idea that RAND() doesn't work like NEWID() in T-SQL." Do you find the discrepancy "unexpected?" 😀

    Heh... Only the first time I ran across it. 😛

    --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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    How to post code problems
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