Home Forums Article Discussions Article Discussions by Author Discuss Content Posted by Randy Dyess Is a Temporary Table Really Necessary? RE: Is a Temporary Table Really Necessary?

  • May 15, 2009 at 8:12 am

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    alex (5/15/2009)

    > I am not fond of cursors and advocate doing anything possible to replace the cursor

    What do you gain by handling the looping yourself rather than just using a cursor? I try and get rid of cursors by replacing with a single sql statement. Obviously this won't work if you have to call a stored procedure for every record in a table (for example), but if you have to do this then why is using your own looping mechanism preferable to using a cursor?

    I agree... a good "firehose" cursor makes sense here.

    --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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