Even though Microsoft has provided guidance since 2005 to not use cursors unless there is no other way to do it (at least we agree there IS another way to...

The reasons we don't like cursors are due to the unpredictability of locks, not to mention not set programming. Anything you can do with a cursor, you can do with...

msdb.dbo.dbm_monitor_data

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Variable-length Unicode character data. n can be a value from 1 through 4,000. max indicates that the maximum storage size is 2^31-1...