Duplicate post. No replies here, please. It'll just split up the responses. Instead, please respond to the other post which is located at the following link. Thanks folks.
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.