Cursors

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Working with SQL Cursors

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n SQL cursors serve as a pointer that enables application programming language to deal with query results one row at a time. Read on to explores the concept behind and learn how to declare cursors, open, retrieve data from them, and then close them.

2020-06-09

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Change Tracking Data Retention Options

If I am running this code:

ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=4 xxx);
What are the possible choices for xxx?

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