Tag Archives: Cursor

T-SQL: Cursor Example

Posted by on December 27, 2015 Comments Off on T-SQL: Cursor Example

ARTICLE FROM ORIGINAL SITE – Young and Dumb!

Database Cursors have long been a favorite of mine. It allows you to take a subset of data and output the information in various ways. I use them for such things as building the body of an automated email with a cursor set within a stored proceedure. You can return output to build a cleaner report output, etc.Example

Select 'Case Created: '+convert(Varchar(20), @DATE ) + ' Case Number: '+ convert(varchar(10), @CaseNum)

We will start with the basic frame work and build from that:

We will use a two tables named SomeTable and Other Table
(The tables are actually from MySQL – I was lazy.)
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T-SQL Using Parameter Table like a Cursor

Posted by on February 3, 2010 Comments Off on T-SQL Using Parameter Table like a Cursor

The Google gods seem to like a very old page of mine about using Cursors in T-SQL. So, from time to time I get commnets via email.  Thought I  would share an alternative to using cursors.

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T-SQL – Change SQL Job Owners to SA

Posted by on December 24, 2008 Comments Off on T-SQL – Change SQL Job Owners to SA

I’m a sucker for the Maint Wizards and everytime I touch a SQL Job.. It reverts the ownership to my domain account. ( Not a Good Practice to use my domain account … I know). I manually change the ownership back to sa (actually, dbo as sa is disabled…ssssh) . OR I CAN USE THE BELOW HANDY-DANDY SCRIPT . As always .. Buyer-Beware! Written for  SQL Server 2005..

Here is a script I wrote to do the heavy lifting:

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T-SQL: Alternatives to Using Cursors

Posted by on May 27, 2008 Comments Off on T-SQL: Alternatives to Using Cursors

[UPDATE] — SQLServerCentral.com has a great article( from 2002) on the use of Temp Tables. You may find the information useful.

I have gotten a ton of hits some links that I created years ago on T-SQL Cursors. Sometimes they are the the best course of action , but may times they are not the most efficient. This posting has some a possible alternative.

Creating Tables with Identity Columns
I like to create tables and temp tables with identity columns. You can then do row by row process the data using the id column. In another post, I will show you how to create and some uses for Table-Valued functions to provide similar utility found with using cursors. Oh, don’t forget our friend the Case Statement, either.

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