mschroeppel (7/4/2010)

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I also found this article rather insulting. I almost never use cursors. In fact, I think I should use them more. I sometimes find myself dong mental jujitsu, trying to write set-based T-SQL, when the task lends itself more easily to procedural code.

Of course they are slower, but sometimes performance is not as important as writing something that is simple and easily maintainable. Arguing that programmers are lazy and dumb is all the more reason to write something in a way that your (lazy, dumb) successors will understand.

Obviously anyone reading this article is interested in avoiding cursors, so why start off with a self-indulgent rant? JMHO.