Meaning of RBAR | Babel Free

Definitions

Initialism of row by agonizing row; used to describe procedural programming in SQL.

abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, initialism

Examples

“All of these methods either employ⟳ (what I call⟳) "RBAR" programming (pronounced as "ree-bar" and stands for "Row By Agonizing Row") […]”

“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 […]”

“While RBAR used over twice as much log⟳ as the set⟳ based operations, the log⟳ used per transaction was less than half.”

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