>Fabio,
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>>Often the things that are not understood appear ridicules.
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>*L* I understand.
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>If you are conditionally writing different structured cursors, the whole rest of the SP has to be littered with so much conditional code that I'm really glad I'm not following behind you trying to maintain the unmaintainable code.

Of course, the structure of the cursor is the same!
It is the COMPLEX source that it is contidional.

Example: the Select's source
can to have 33 different outlines of this combination :
77 tables join with 222 subqueries and a where with 1111 lines with grouping and having....

Of course i can write all the workarounds, but this is not the point,
the point is the MS SQL bug.