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  • June 18, 2013 at 6:13 am

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    sagesmith (6/18/2013)

    Please post the times each approach takes, this is the only basis for a conclusion. As others have already mentioned, in many scenarios the cursor far outperforms the recursive cte.

    Over to you then. Sample data setup is a page or two back. I've compared iTally vs rCTE here:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1464526.aspx

    Feel free to write your fastest cursor-based solution 😉

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