Luis Cazares (9/21/2012)
It would have been great to understand the difference between row-by-row programming and set based programming (or procedural language and declarative language). It would be important to notice when is it better to use one or the other.
+1
My first experience used a cursor and hence row-by-row processing and that required hours, yes hours to complete. Once I learned set based techniques the same job was reduced to mere minutes.