You're welcome. I also neglected to state that the test data consisted of 1 million rows with 2 non-LOB columns and 1 VARCHAR(MAX) column and total table size was 572MB. It was a very simple proof-of-principle test.
--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.
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