Well, I'm not hand-waving; just type "TPC cursor" into Google and you will immediately find, as I did, a post by the wonderful Linchi Shea that announced to the world...

In asking for an example of someplace where cursors were a preferred solution, did the referenct to TPC benchmarks not count? They don't get those programmers from the local...

@G-Squared:

The classic case for using GOTO in SQL 2000 (and earlier) was if you wanted to write one error handling section in a proc, you could put it down at...

Good editorial on an important topic.

To me, cursors seem to be the most thoroughly-reviled feature in SQL Server. It's as though people are trying to believe that the assembly...

If it's really true that the NSA is just storing things like connect information (as opposed to the contents of the call), then not at all - I would guess...

Great article, Steve.  You know, I think that the reason that they do not get too much into overhead is because it varies with the number of columns and so...

I thought the deadly snake and the lawyer were the same, so only two bullets would be needed. 

Either that, or this could be...

Hi Steve,

I've never thought about this before, but do the prohibitions against plagiarism apply to copying information from forum or newsgroup posts as well? In other words, if you...

Near the beginning of my career, I worked for a company in Iowa City, Iowa that had another location in Austin, Texas. The management in Iowa City said that...

If anybody's still following this thread, do any of these tools integrate well with Visual Studio and/or Visual Source Safe?

Thanks,

Chris

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Yes, a role can own objects just like a user. This is actually an interesting option. The key to this thread is to specify the owner as part...

I know you are probably just posting troll for fun, or at least I hope you are, because otherwise you are proving that your ignorance is the source of your...

I never get to post anymore, but this was so interesting ... so here's my list. I've also tried (not entirely successfully, since I've lived in the US my...

Frank, you rock! I haven't had time to be around much, but your posts are always great. I clicked through from the daily email from SSC just because...