Alternative to cursor.

Hi all,
I want to get data from table and do some processing depending on
records of table.
Do i need to use cursor. Or is there any other alternative available
for this.
Any suggestion would be truely appreciated.
thanks in advance.
<trialproduct2004@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I want to get data from table and do some processing depending on
> records of table.
> Do i need to use cursor. Or is there any other alternative available
> for this.
> Any suggestion would be truely appreciated.
> thanks in advance.
>
That depends on the type of processing you need to do. In general, using
set based solutions rather than procedural (cursor) solutions is faster in
SQL Server.
If you give some specifics of your problem and the desired results etc. we
can be more helpful here.
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Rick Sawtell
|||what specifically do you want to do?
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<trialproduct2004@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I want to get data from table and do some processing depending on
> records of table.
> Do i need to use cursor. Or is there any other alternative available
> for this.
> Any suggestion would be truely appreciated.
> thanks in advance.
>
|||Try to avoid cursors as they in general don't offer the performance that set
based operations do. Try to do a set based operation if possible.
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<trialproduct2004@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1160140929.983520.124390@.i3g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...
> Hi all,
> I want to get data from table and do some processing depending on
> records of table.
> Do i need to use cursor. Or is there any other alternative available
> for this.
> Any suggestion would be truely appreciated.
> thanks in advance.
>