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Jeff Moden
Aged Yak Warrior
USA
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 Posted - 01/09/2013 : 21:18:58
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In English, it makes sure that people can't enter garbage in the database nor can they make certain deletes that would leave orphans. As you can imagine, there's more to it than that but those are the two most important things that come to mind.
--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."
When writing schedules, keep the following in mind:
"If you want it real bad, that's the way you'll likely get it." |
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