RE: Cursor.. cmds don’t seem to update until everything has finished

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March 6, 2013 at 6:41 am

Try using this instead of print, which is buffered:

raiserror ('My Print Statement', 10,1) with nowait

Your inserts may be uncommitted until the cursor loop has completed, in which case you could still see some data using the NOLOCK query hint.

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