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Re: WHILE LOOP AS FOR LOOP

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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
      Re: WHILE LOOP AS FOR LOOP Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2015-07-29 15:44 +0000
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