thanks dcpeterson. sorry to be the bearer of unpleasant tidings.

pp. 569-571 in my copy -- the section entitled 'Optimizing Cursor Performance'. There *are* 2 or 3 sentences that contain information that is -in addition- to the information plagiarized...

I'm sure Kalpesh Thaker is a nice person, and I realize that there are only so many ways of describing the same information, particularly in an article such as the...

This article, http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/kThaker/optimizingcursorperformance.asp

supposedly by Kalpesh Thaker, appears to be lifted almost word-for-word from Ken Henderson's book The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals, published in 2003.