My experience is with Sybase, not SQL server, but there are two areas I have always found cursors (or loops if you wish, doesn't much matter) very helpful and far...

Cursors can have a higher performance in many cases where dealing with large updates. There are a couple reasons for this:

- The deleted and inserted tables used by...

When dealing with large data that needs to be updated differently, row by row, cursors can have much higher performance for a couple reaons:

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In order to use "," as a delimiter in my format file on a Unix system, I had to enter it like this: "\",\""

In other words I had to...