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dweil56 SSC Enthusiast Points: 176 More actions · Answer 1

Forty years ago I was in college and we heard about the evils of "gotos".

We were only allowed to use a goto if we could justify why there was no better way to do it.

After the first couple of justifications were shot down, we just stopped asking.

qbrt SSCrazy Points: 2737 More actions · Answer 2

I must say, seeing Jeff Moden, Eric Russel, Joe Celko, people I have learned so much from, all chime in on the same thread... Well, it just brings a tear to my eye.

Yes, trying to brown my nose. Have I succeeded? 🙂

Good company.

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qbrt SSCrazy Points: 2737 More actions · Answer 3

jcelko212 32090 wrote:

... Then at Datamation magazine ran a gag article about the "come from" flow control structure as a replacement for the traditional "go to" flow control.

Seriously! COMEFROM... Have never heard of it until now. Hilarious!

COMEFROM - Wikipedia

David.Poole SSC Guru Points: 75907 More actions · Answer 4

Thank God there's no GOSUB in SQL.

There's a school of thought that gets sniffy at overuse of if statements in OO languages.

Such constructs feel like a vestigal organ like an appendix.

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qbrt SSCrazy Points: 2737 More actions · Answer 5

OMG, David Poole chimes in too. I can't stop crying. I feel so small.

David.Poole wrote:

Thank God there's no GOSUB in SQL.
There's a school of thought that gets sniffy at overuse of if statements in OO languages.
Such constructs feel like a vestigal organ like an appendix.

Yes! YES!! Do not use "if" statements in OO 😀 !

Sometimes it's not that simple to code away that "if" statement. I try my best, but get lazy.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003899 More actions · Answer 6

David.Poole wrote:

Thank God there's no GOSUB in SQL.
There's a school of thought that gets sniffy at overuse of if statements in OO languages.
Such constructs feel like a vestigal organ like an appendix.

BWAAAA-HAAAAA-HAAAAAA!!! No... instead, we have folks that write sp_ and tbl_ and vw_ and fn_ and incremental rCTEs and "wonderful" built-ins like FORMAT and PIVOT, etc, etc. And, yea... let's make our sp_'s 8 levels deep and have them call views of views and functions of functions.

--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)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003899 More actions · Answer 7

qbrt wrote:

I must say, seeing Jeff Modan, Eric Russel, Joe Celko, people I have learned so much from, all chime in on the same thread... Well, it just brings a tear to my eye.
Yes, trying to brown my nose. Have I succeeded? 🙂
Good company.

Heh.... I had to laugh out loud at that! Thank you for the fine feedback (although with only five letters in it, you could have spelled my name right :D) but, on the subject of browning your nose, remember that the only difference between a brown-noser and a s--t head is... depth perception. 😀 😀 😀

I sure hope you take that as the joke it was intended to be. 😀

Now... please excuse me... I have another thread that I have to GOTO. 😀

And, being an ex-submarine sailor, I have to admit that GOSUB has a totally different meaning since then.

--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)

Eric M Russell SSC Guru Points: 125524 More actions · Answer 8

The example presented in the article, executing a stored procedure within a loop for a set of input parameters, is one of those scenarios where looping is justly applied. Refactoring the procedure with a table valued input parameter would be ideal, but when running a one-off process or extending the functionality of a 3rd party application, it's best not to introduce risk by changing the functionality of something that works as intended elsewhere. I used to do more of this kind of stuff, before I started using PowerShell scripting.

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

qbrt SSCrazy Points: 2737 More actions · Answer 9

Jeff Moden wrote:

qbrt wrote:

.. Thank you for the fine feedback (although with only five letters in it, you could have spelled my name right :D) ...

Uhm .... I blame the keyboard. Had it replaced and lookie, the name is now spelled correctly 🙂

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003899 More actions · Answer 10

😀

--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)