• Interesting and thoughtful editorial you wrote there, Mr. McGehee. I'd like to add a 3rd category instead of just the Giver or Taker catgories... Receiver. It seems like the "pass it forward" theory really does work. The more I give, the more I get and I'm not even trying to "take". Some of the folks waiting in the wings but still not coming forward might want to reconsider based on that thought.

    Thank you, Steve Jones, and all those behind the scenes that keep this site up, running, and in the fine shape it's in. Thank you for making it attractive enough to bring in the "big dogs" (who also happen to be "big givers") that we all know so well not to mention all the relative "newbies" who have proven their savy and merit and have joined the "big dogs" in very, very short order. I've learned a whole lot thanks to SQLServerCentral and it's not all just about SQL Server. 😉

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    --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
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)