To all database engineers, when creating stored procedures or functions, you frequently implement repetitive processes (loops), don't you? Loop processing is essential when batch processing large ...

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 ...

Terminates the execution of an iteration of a looping statement and continues with the next iteration if the looping condition is met. This statement may only be used within a compound statement.

An explanation from basic syntax to practical pitfallsYou can use SQL to search for data and retrieve records by specifying ...