Actually, Gus' answer is the best answer... "It depends". This is the kind of thing that you need to test.
Gus, good point about the net gain on things like Insert/Select. 🙂
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row. First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code: ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.