Cursors are based for a definitive purpose, but heavy usage of such methods will prove as costly expense on database performance. The process of cursor is prolonged, as a cursor first has to be defined with its features set, then populated after positioning (scrolled) to a set of record(s) and fetched every time. Finally once the process is ...

The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition & SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition Notification Contents: New and Major Modifications FIX: A cursor uses the incorrect transaction isolation level after you change the transaction ...