• I'm going to take the opposite stance from a lot of other folks. Sure, I believe that you have to know other "stuff" to be a good DBA or even Developer... but too many people are using things like CLRs, NHibernate, Hibernate, and a wad of other hooie because they don't know T-SQL or what it can and should do. Everyone keeps ragging about DBA's that need to know something else... how about GUI and other types of programmers? They should learn T-SQL! 😉

    Just like folks say that not everything should be done in T-SQL, not everything has to be done in something other than T-SQL. 😛

    --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)