"RBAR" meaning in English

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          "ref": "[2005 January 10, Jeff Moden, “Calculating Work Days”, in SQLServerCentral, Simple Talk Publishing, archived from the original on 2007-10-23:",
          "text": "All of these methods either employ (what I call) \"RBAR\" programming (pronounced as \"ree-bar\" and stands for \"Row By Agonizing Row\") […]",
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          "ref": "2007 July 26, Remi Gregoire, “RBAR: ‘Row By Agonizing Row’”, in Redgate, retrieved 2021-07-19:",
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          "text": "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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