>>>Hi,
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>>>I am wondering about cursors. Why would one use a cursor in SQL Server?
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>>Performance.
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>I think that would be about the last reason.
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>Although I haven't had performance issues with cursors, I've heard horror stories from people who claim they have.
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>I only use them if I can't come up with a cleaner way to accomplish something.

I'm not sure you're going to convince me disk based operations perform better than memory based operations.