All I'm saying is that it's reasonable to consider more than one option and more than one technique. I accept that you can produce countless examples of why your preference is best. I also accept that you'd posted this as a puzzle in the SQL Server forum, so I'm going to leave it there. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
