I Called Myself Dumb in a Code Comment. I Was Wrong About the Cursor.
I went looking through an old reconciliation script this week, the kind you write once for a quarter-end reconciliation and forget about, and I found a note from my past self. Right above a cursor,…
A Better Cursor Pattern for SQL Server: Cursor Variables and @@CURSOR_ROWS
Replace the traditional WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS cursor loop with a cleaner pattern using cursor variables, STATIC cursors, and @@CURSOR_ROWS for more readable, less error-prone T-SQL.