RBAR

English

Etymology

Coined by database administrator Jeff Moden.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹiː.bɑɹ/
  • Homophone: rebar

Phrase

RBAR

  1. (database administration, derogatory) Initialism of row by agonizing row; used to describe procedural programming in SQL.
    • [2005 January 10, Jeff Moden, “Calculating Work Days”, in SQLServerCentral‎, Simple Talk Publishing, archived from the original on 2007-10-23:
      All of these methods either employ (what I call) "RBAR" programming (pronounced as "ree-bar" and stands for "Row By Agonizing Row") […]]
    • 2007 July 26, Remi Gregoire, “RBAR: ‘Row By Agonizing Row’”, in Redgate‎, retrieved 2021-07-19:
      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 […]
    • 2019 December 9, Randy Knight, “Rethinking RBAR”, in 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.

References
  1. Jeff Moden (2005 January 10) “Calculating Work Days”, in SQLServerCentral‎, Simple Talk Publishing, archived from the original on 2007-10-23: “All of these methods either employ (what I call) "RBAR" programming (pronounced as "ree-bar" and stands for "Row By Agonizing Row") […]”
  2. Randy Knight (2019 December 9) “Rethinking RBAR”, in SQL Solutions Group: “Much has been written about the performance implications of the dreaded RBAR, a term coined by Jeff Moden many years ago.”

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