RBAR

English Etymology en Jeff Moden database administrator 1 -.en http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/calculatingworkdays/1660/ SQLServerCentral All of these methods either employ (what I call) "RBAR" programming (pronounced as "ree-bar" and stands for "Row By Agonizing Row") Calculating Work Days 2005-01-10 Jeff Moden https://web.archive.org/web/20071023061855/http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/calculatingworkdays/1660/ 2007-10-23 Simple Talk Publishingen https://sqlsolutionsgroup.com/rethinking-rbar/ SQL Solutions Group Much has been written about the performance implications of the dreaded RBAR, a term coined by Jeff Moden many years ago. Rethinking RBAR 2019-12-09 Randy Knight https://web.archive.org/web/20260411113337/https://sqlsolutionsgroup.com/rethinking-rbar/ 11 April 2026 Pronunciation en /ˈɹiː.bɑɹ/ US en rebar Phrase phr en database administration derogatory en row by agonizing row; used to describe procedural programming in SQL. en http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/calculatingworkdays/1660/ SQLServerCentral All of these methods either employ (what I call) "RBAR" programming (pronounced as "ree-bar" and stands for "Row By Agonizing Row") Calculating Work Days 2005-01-10 Jeff Moden https://web.archive.org/web/20071023061855/http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/calculatingworkdays/1660/ 2007-10-23 Simple Talk Publishing on en https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/sql/t-sql-programming/rbar-row-by-agonizing-row/ Redgate RBAR is a consequence of coding in a strictly procedural way, rather than in a set-based way. It is different from poor coding; it is the result of adopting a mindset that one always has to tell the computer, step by step RBAR: ‘Row By Agonizing Row’ 2007-07-26 Remi Gregoire 2021-07-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20210917213301/https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/sql/t-sql-programming/rbar-row-by-agonizing-row/ 17 September 2021 en https://sqlsolutionsgroup.com/rethinking-rbar/ SQL Solutions Group While RBAR used over twice as much log as the set based operations, the log used per transaction was less than half. Rethinking RBAR 2019-12-09 Randy Knight https://web.archive.org/web/20260411113337/https://sqlsolutionsgroup.com/rethinking-rbar/ 11 April 2026 References Anagrams en abrr Barr Brar en Programming