Kurt Zimmerman

Interests: Outside of my work I love to build and fly high tech model gliders... I've also started refurbishing vintage fly rods.

Right or Wrong, Dynamic SQL AND a Cursor

I'm no big fan of dynamic SQL or cursors, however there are times where they do the job.

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2013-11-08 (first published: 2013-10-29)

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