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.
I have to agree with you. I was kind of surprised when I saw the title myself, because I knew the discussion would be cursor bashing, but wasn't expecting the article itself to be.
That said, I have learned a lot here on replacements for cursors and other inefficient methods, and have implemented what I can understand and have the ability to. I will use Tally Tables for split functions as an example.
The reasons that I still use cursors are a tossup between using 2000 and that the majority of the time it is one time scripting