Clinton Herring


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Replacing Cursors and While Loops

Get some big performance gains by removing cursors from your code. New author Clinton Herring brings us a couple hints as he shows how two cursors were replaced in his code, resulting in 80 minutes of processing time dropping to 12!

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2007-10-02 (first published: )

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Multiple Escape Characters

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):

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