Hi,

Good Article!

In my opinion cursor usage should depend on "How Often". Cursors provide an easy programming solution when the extensive row processing should be done. If something should be done only a couple of times like in one time data migration tasks, I ususally opt for cursors. If something has to run every day and takes a lot of time than the set approach should be researched and maybe some database architecture changes including de-normalizing the database should be done.

Yelena