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  • March 14, 2010 at 9:56 pm

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    Paul White (3/14/2010)

    (though it is a shame that NEWID is illegal in a function):

    Old gaming advice... if you can't move forward, backward, left, right, up, down, then change "color". 😉

    You can access a VIEW from a UDF. One like the following allows for the use of NEWID() in a function... Same goes for GETDATE() and a couple of other things you supposedly can't use in a UDF.

    CREATE VIEW MyNewID

    AS

    SELECT NEWID() AS ANewID

    --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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