Agreed... thanks for sharing this.
As a bit of a sidebar, there have been many cool hacks to decrypt encrypted code in SQL Server since very shortly after the method came out. I'll never understand why people even bother with the encryption because it won't even stop a rank neophyte if they know how to use a search engine.
--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".
"Dear Lord... I'm a DBA so please give me patience because, if you give me strength, I'm going to need bail money too!"
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)