Neat article.

You can eliminate the cursor (though in this case there's really not a performance hit) by:

-- construct an execution string

declare @ExecString varchar(max)

set @ExecString = ''

select @ExecString = @ExecString + case when @ExecString = '' then '' else ',' end + COLUMN_NAME + '=''' + COLUMN_NAME + ''''

from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS

where TABLE_NAME = @TableName

order by ORDINAL_POSITION

set @ExecString = 'select ' + @ExecString