Heh... Crap! This forum wouldn't let me give this article any more than 5 stars and it wouldn't let me vote more than once.
On all fronts, well said, Grant.
--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.