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