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john_izzy

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September 28, 2008 at 12:50 pm

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how to make cursor in sql server 2005?

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

john_izzy (9/28/2008)
how to make cursor in sql server 2005?

Why do you need a cursor? Unless you're doing certain types of admin tasks (which are often one object at a time) there are better ways to work in SQL than with a cursor.

That said, look at DECLARE CURSOR in books online

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 2

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--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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