I copied this from Books Online, search for fetch and I think fetch next will achieve what you want.

DECLARE authors_cursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT au_lname FROM authors
WHERE au_lname LIKE "B%"
ORDER BY au_lname

OPEN authors_cursor

-- Perform the first fetch.
FETCH NEXT FROM authors_cursor

-- Check @@FETCH_STATUS to see if there are any more rows to fetch.
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
-- This is executed as long as the previous fetch succeeds.
FETCH NEXT FROM authors_cursor
END

CLOSE authors_cursor
DEALLOCATE authors_cursor
GO


>You are correct. However, what I really need is to grant the read permission for all tables except a number of confidential tables. My initial plan was to write a "Grant_Persmission" stored procedure which gets a cursor listing of user tables excluding those confidential tables. Then loop through them and grant the permission accordingly. Unfortunately, I stumble on the looping through the cursor using TSQL.
>
>I am sorry for not specifying my problem clearer in the earlier mail. Any idea how I can solve my problem?
>
>Thanks
>
>>I thought the db_datareader role covers this? Is this what you want?
>>
>>Explain a little more if ive missed the point.
>>
>>Jon
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