Procedural, Semi-Procedural and Declarative Programming in SQL

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Published on 2010/03/09 Indexed on 2010/03/15 15:40 UTC
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A lot of the time, the key to making SQL databases perform well is to take a break from the keyboard and rethink the way of approaching the problem; and rethinking in terms of a set-based declarative approach. Joe takes a simple discussion abut a problem with a UDF to illustrate the point that ingrained procedural reflexes can often prevent us from seeing simpler set-based techniques.

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