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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 1

GilaMonster (12/4/2013)
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Drum rolls with chocolate. Very few redundant words in all those posts.

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

ChrisM@Work (12/5/2013)
Drum rolls with chocolate.

Hmm.. I wonder what chocolate drum rolls taste like. :hehe:

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 3

GilaMonster (12/4/2013)
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Congratulations!

Greg Edwards-268690 SSC-Insane Points: 20680 More actions · Answer 4

GilaMonster (12/5/2013)
ChrisM@Work (12/5/2013)
Drum rolls with chocolate.
Hmm.. I wonder what chocolate drum rolls taste like. :hehe:

Tasty? Or just plain well deserved?

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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 5

GilaMonster (12/4/2013)
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Congrats Gail and thanks for all your help.

-- Gianluca Sartori

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004414 More actions · Answer 6

GilaMonster (12/4/2013)
In unrelated news, slightly belated drum rolls please..

Absolutely awesome!

--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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Chad Crawford SSChampion Points: 11610 More actions · Answer 7

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December 5, 2013 at 11:08 am

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Congrats Gail - quite an accomplishment!

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 8

GilaMonster (12/4/2013)
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Congrats!

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 9

Congratulations Gail, thank you for all the shared knowledge.:-D

Luis C.
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rodjkidd SSCoach Points: 15917 More actions · Answer 10

Gail, er what they all said, congrats, and thanks for the help / advice etc. so far!

<hug.

Rodders...

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398909 More actions · Answer 11

Oh well heck, everyone else has said it and now I feel left out.

Congrats Gail.

What was it you did again?

...

Kidding, kidding. Put that stick down... 😛

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 12

Grant Fritchey (12/6/2013)
Oh well heck, everyone else has said it and now I feel left out.
Congrats Gail.
What was it you did again?
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Kidding, kidding. Put that stick down... 😛

Yeah...I hear Gail might be pretty good with a "stick" or something similar. 😉

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398909 More actions · Answer 13

Ed Wagner (12/6/2013)
Grant Fritchey (12/6/2013)
Oh well heck, everyone else has said it and now I feel left out.
Congrats Gail.
What was it you did again?
...
Kidding, kidding. Put that stick down... 😛
Yeah...I hear Gail might be pretty good with a "stick" or something similar. 😉

Never bring a three foot long razor to a gun fight.

Remember, if you ain't cheating, you ain't fighting.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19254 More actions · Answer 14

SQLPass 2014 paid.

And this time I won't go to the Cheesecake Factory and order the heaviest slice of cheesecake that they make:sick:

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 15

GilaMonster (12/4/2013)
In unrelated news, slightly belated drum rolls please..

Congrats, Gail.

I guess the next thing is for your number of posts to surpass the number of posts in the thread. 😎

Tom