rothco (5/27/2011)
As a complete beginner I found the article badly mistitled. It was not Cursors for beginners but why not to use cursors for beginners.A good starting point in an article for beginners is to assume that your reader knows nothing about the subject. This article singularly failed to do this.
About the title you are wrigth. Although the purpose off the article seemed explained in the article to me (a non-beginner), avoiding the beginners-reflex for cursors-usage to become a bad habit when there is no need to. (By the way, I started reading this article because I wanted to know if the article also would warn newbiees about the disadvantages off cursors. It did that indeed :-P)
As a experienced user reading the discussion I thought, how the hell this level off discussion comes after a 'beginner-article'. Don't think many beginners will make it to this comment.