Tim Chapman discusses your iteration choices in SQL Server 2008 and explains why determining which option performs better depends on the situation. In a previous TechRepublic column about SQL Server ...
SQL is a set-based language, where you say what you want to do instead of how to do it (the latter is how a procedural language like C# works). Cursors undertake row-by-row processing, that is ...
A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2025, how does it fare? Ian Stirk takes and in depth look and finds it pretty good. This well-liked SQL Server book examines performance ...