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Re: WHILE LOOP AS FOR LOOP

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Date	2015-08-14 17:54 -0700
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Subject	Re: WHILE LOOP AS FOR LOOP
From	--CELKO-- <jcelko212@earthlink.net>

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Your mindset is wrong. SQL is a declarative language and does not use procedural constructs. Things happen "all at once" in whole sets, not in sequential steps. This means we have no loops. A classic book on this topic is Peter Henderson's FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING.

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    Re: WHILE LOOP AS FOR LOOP Jessica González <jess.rgm@gmail.com> - 2015-07-29 07:31 -0700
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        Re: WHILE LOOP AS FOR LOOP rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2015-07-29 10:03 -0700
  Re: WHILE LOOP AS FOR LOOP --CELKO-- <jcelko212@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-14 17:54 -0700

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