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Re: SQL Cursors

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From	Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Date	Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:23:02 -0700
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On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:44:22 -0400, "Bob Barrows"
<reb01501@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:

>rja.carnegie@gmail.com wrote:

[snip]

>> An advantage of recommending a solution without a cursor is that if
>> the question is someone's assignment at college, then you aren't
>> being helpful.  :-)

     Why would cursor or not have anything to do with whether the
question is assignment-related?

     (Yes, I can generally smell a homework question quite well.  (It
is easy; they reek of it.)  I am asking for the general case.)

>That assumes I want to be helpful to someone doing their homework 

     Which is probably the case, actually.  You just do not want to do
the homework for him.  I understand that some people have gone for the
sabotage approach; that is too much effort for me.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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  Re: SQL Cursors "Bob Barrows" <reb01501@NOyahooSPAM.com> - 2012-09-04 11:27 -0400
    Re: SQL Cursors sim <simisa@tiscalinet.it> - 2012-09-05 08:32 +0200
      Re: SQL Cursors "Bob Barrows" <reb01501@NOSPAMyahoo.com> - 2012-09-05 06:18 -0400
        Re: SQL Cursors sim <simisa@tiscalinet.it> - 2012-09-05 13:00 +0200
          Re: SQL Cursors "Bob Barrows" <reb01501@NOSPAMyahoo.com> - 2012-09-05 07:45 -0400
            Re: SQL Cursors sim <simisa@tiscalinet.it> - 2012-09-05 18:19 +0200
            Re: SQL Cursors rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2012-09-05 15:36 -0700
              Re: SQL Cursors "Bob Barrows" <reb01501@NOSPAMyahoo.com> - 2012-09-05 18:44 -0400
                Re: SQL Cursors rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2012-09-05 16:58 -0700
                Re: SQL Cursors Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-05 17:23 -0700
                Re: SQL Cursors rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2012-09-06 02:50 -0700
              Re: SQL Cursors "Bob Barrows" <reb01501@NOSPAMyahoo.com> - 2012-09-05 18:44 -0400
                Re: SQL Cursors sim <simisa@tiscalinet.it> - 2012-09-06 09:37 +0200

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