Cursor Column Name
Mar 19, 2004Is there any way in sql to know the column name in cursor. like in record set (rsName.Fields(1).Name gives us the coulumn name)
Thanks in Advance
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Cursor To Increment A Value In A New Column
Nov 24, 1999I am trying to update a new column called "sorting", with incremented values
strating at 1 for the first row and 2 for the second and 3 for the thirsd etc......., before doing that I need the table to be sorted using three
columns. I am using a cursor but it is not working I need your help.
Thanks in advance:
CODE:
set @ordering_count=0
declare review_test_cursor cursor scroll keyset for
select oid,decision_date,ranking,sorting,decision_id
from DECISION_FLAGS
order by oid,decision_date,ranking asc
open review_test_cursor
fetch next from review_test_cursor
while (@@fetch_status = 0 )
Begin
update DECISION_FLAGS
set sorting = CAST ((@ordering_count + 1) as VARCHAR)
set @ordering_count = @ordering_count + 1
fetch next from review_test_cursor
end
close review_test_cursor
deallocate review_test_cursor
Column Names With A Cursor
Jul 23, 2005I have set up a query where I am using a cursor to pass result from onequery to use as select parameters in another query. The problem I amhaving is that when I pass the results into the second query I get thecolumn headers?How do you suppress the column headers from showing in the query? Isee how you select options - print headers.ThanksJason
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Dec 26, 2007Is it possible to use a cursor in computed column?
I have two table (Table1 and Table2). Table 2 is child of Table 1.
Table 2 has more than one record for each record in table 1. What I want is, to concat records from table 2 and show it as a column value for Table1.
e.g.
Code Block
Table 1:
Col1 Col2
1 ABC
1 DEF
Table 2
T1Col1 Col2
1 A
1 -
1 B
1 1
1 -
1 C
I want to see the Results as
Table 1
Col1 Col2 Col3
1 ABC A-B1-C
Is it possible to add computed column for the table1 to get the result as shown in above block.
Thanks
Variable As Column In Cursor Select
Jun 7, 2004I can't seem to get a cursor to work when I'm passing in a variable for a column name of the select statement. For example:
declare @col varchar(50)
set @col = 'Temperature'
declare notifycurs cursor scroll for
select @col from Table
Obviously this won't work correctly (since the result will simply be 'Temperature' instead of the actual float value for temperature). I tried to use quotes for the entire statement with an EXEC
(ie. exec('select '+@col+' from Table' )
but that gave me an error.
Is there a way to pass in a variable for a column name for a curor select statement????
Using Stuff To Return A String Of Values From A Column Without A Cursor
Dec 13, 2007I think it was Pat Phelan who posted a little trick here where he used the STUFF function to create a string fo values from a column without using a cursor.
I am starting a brand new project and I did my table design and I am awaiting a finalized requirements document to start coding and I thought I would spend a little time writing some code to autogenerate some generic one record at a time SELECT, INSERT,UPDATE and DELETE stored procedures. With the coming holiday things are getting quiet around here.
The code that is not working is listed below. It does not work. It returns Null. I suck.
DECLARE @column_names varchar(8000)
SET @column_names = ''
SELECT @column_names = STUFF(@column_names,LEN(@column_names),0,C.COLUMN_ NAME + ', ')
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS C
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'MyTable'
SELECT @column_names
little help?
Miss Match Between Column Type In A Cursor. Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5
Nov 16, 2006hi
I have a float column . only in cursor I get a type missmatch.
does any one knows it ?
the error
Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 14
Error converting data type varchar to float.
the code
DECLARE @RON_FLOAT FLOAT
DECLARE RON_CURSOR CURSOR FOR
SELECT RON_FLOAT
FROM RON_TABLE1
OPEN RON_CURSOR
FETCH NEXT FROM RON_CURSOR
INTO @RON_FLOAT
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
PRINT 'VALUE IS ' + @RON_FLOAT
FETCH NEXT FROM RON_CURSOR
INTO @RON_FLOAT
END
CLOSE RON_CURSOR
DEALLOCATE RON_CURSOR
the code for the table
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[RON_TABLE1](
[RON_FLOAT] [float] NULL,
[RON_CHAR] [nchar](10) COLLATE Hebrew_BIN NULL
)
Need To Find An Easy Way To Split A Column In Table Without Using Cursor Or Temp Tables
Sep 5, 2007Hi ,
I have two tables within a SQL database. The 1st table has an identified column and column which lists one of more email identifers for a second table,
e.g.
ID Email
-- ----------
1 AS1 AS11
2 AS2 AS3 AS4 AS5
3 AS6 AS7
The second table has a column which has an email identifier and another column which lists one email address for that particular identifier, e.g.
ID EmailAddress
--- ------------------
AS1 abcstu@emc.com
AS2 abcstu2@emc.com
AS3 abcstu3@emc.com
AS4 abcstu4@em.com
AS5 abcstu5@emc.com
AS6 abcstu6@emc.com
AS7 abcstu7@emc.com
AS11 abcstu8@emc.com
I need to create a stored procedure or function that:
1. Selects an Email from the first table, based on a valid ID,
2. Splits the Email field of the first table (using the space separator) so that there is an array of Emails and then,
3. Selects the relevant EmailAddress value from the second table, based on a valid Email stored in the array
Is there any way that this can be done directly within SQL Server using a stored procedure/function without having to use cursors?
Many Thanks,
probetatester@yahoo.com
Transact SQL :: STATIC Defines A Cursor That Makes Temporary Copy Of Data To Be Used By Cursor
Aug 12, 2015 In MSDN file I read about static cursor
STATIC
Defines a cursor that makes a temporary copy of the data to be used by the cursor. All requests to the cursor are answered from this temporary table in
tempdb; therefore, modifications made to base tables are not reflected in the data returned by fetches made to this cursor, and this cursor does not allow modifications
It say's that modifications is not allowed in the static cursor. I have a questions regarding that
Static Cursor
declare ll cursor global static
for select name, salary from ag
open ll
fetch from ll
while @@FETCH_STATUS=0
fetch from ll
update ag set salary=200 where 1=1
close ll
deallocate ll
In "AG" table, "SALARY" was 100 for all the entries. When I run the Cursor, it showed the salary value as "100" correctly.After the cursor was closed, I run the query select * from AG.But the result had updated to salary 200 as given in the cursor. file says modifications is not allowed in the static cursor.But I am able to update the data using static cursor.
Dynamic Cursor Versus Forward Only Cursor Gives Poor Performance
Jul 20, 2005Hello,I have a test database with table A containing 10,000 rows and a tableB containing 100,000 rows. Rows in B are "children" of rows in A -each row in A has 10 related rows in B (ie. B has a foreign key to A).Using ODBC I am executing the following loop 10,000 times, expressedbelow in pseudo-code:"select * from A order by a_pk option (fast 1)""fetch from A result set""select * from B where where fk_to_a = 'xxx' order by b_pk option(fast 1)""fetch from B result set" repeated 10 timesIn the above psueod-code 'xxx' is the primary key of the current Arow. NOTE: it is not a mistake that we are repeatedly doing the Aquery and retrieving only the first row.When the queries use fast-forward-only cursors this takes about 2.5minutes. When the queries use dynamic cursors this takes about 1 hour.Does anyone know why the dynamic cursor is killing performance?Because of the SQL Server ODBC driver it is not possible to havenested/multiple fast-forward-only cursors, hence I need to exploreother alternatives.I can only assume that a different query plan is getting constructedfor the dynamic cursor case versus the fast forward only cursor, but Ihave no way of finding out what that query plan is.All help appreciated.Kevin
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Sep 20, 2007I'm trying to implement a sp_MSforeachsp howvever when I call sp_MSforeach_worker
I get the following error can you please explain this problem to me so I can over come the issue.
Msg 16958, Level 16, State 3, Procedure sp_MSforeach_worker, Line 31
Could not complete cursor operation because the set options have changed since the cursor was declared.
Msg 16958, Level 16, State 3, Procedure sp_MSforeach_worker, Line 32
Could not complete cursor operation because the set options have changed since the cursor was declared.
Msg 16917, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_MSforeach_worker, Line 153
Cursor is not open.
here is the stored procedure:
Alter PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_MSforeachsp]
@command1 nvarchar(2000)
, @replacechar nchar(1) = N'?'
, @command2 nvarchar(2000) = null
, @command3 nvarchar(2000) = null
, @whereand nvarchar(2000) = null
, @precommand nvarchar(2000) = null
, @postcommand nvarchar(2000) = null
AS
/* This procedure belongs in the "master" database so it is acessible to all databases */
/* This proc returns one or more rows for each stored procedure */
/* @precommand and @postcommand may be used to force a single result set via a temp table. */
declare @retval int
if (@precommand is not null) EXECUTE(@precommand)
/* Create the select */
EXECUTE(N'declare hCForEachTable cursor global for
SELECT QUOTENAME(SPECIFIC_SCHEMA)+''.''+QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_NAME)
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE ROUTINE_TYPE = ''PROCEDURE''
AND OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(QUOTENAME(SPECIFIC_SCHEMA)+''.''+QUOTENAME(ROUTINE_NAME)), ''IsMSShipped'') = 0 '
+ @whereand)
select @retval = @@error
if (@retval = 0)
EXECUTE @retval = [dbo].sp_MSforeach_worker @command1, @replacechar, @command2, @command3, 0
if (@retval = 0 and @postcommand is not null)
EXECUTE(@postcommand)
RETURN @retval
GO
example useage:
EXEC sp_MSforeachsp @command1="PRINT '?' GRANT EXECUTE ON ? TO [superuser]"
GO
Join Cursor With Table Outside Of Cursor
Sep 25, 2007part 1
Declare @SQLCMD varchar(5000)
DECLARE @DBNAME VARCHAR (5000)
DECLARE DBCur CURSOR FOR
SELECT U_OB_DB FROM [@OB_TB04_COMPDATA]
OPEN DBCur
FETCH NEXT FROM DBCur INTO @DBNAME
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
SELECT @SQLCMD = 'SELECT T0.CARDCODE, T0.U_OB_TID AS TRANSID, T0.DOCNUM AS INV_NO, ' +
+ 'T0.DOCDATE AS INV_DATE, T0.DOCTOTAL AS INV_AMT, T0.U_OB_DONO AS DONO ' +
+ 'FROM ' + @DBNAME + '.dbo.OINV T0 WHERE T0.U_OB_TID IS NOT NULL'
EXEC(@SQLCMD)
PRINT @SQLCMD
FETCH NEXT FROM DBCur INTO @DBNAME
END
CLOSE DBCur
DEALLOCATE DBCur
Part 2
SELECT
T4.U_OB_PCOMP AS PARENTCOMP, T0.CARDCODE, T0.CARDNAME, ISNULL(T0.U_OB_TID,'') AS TRANSID, T0.DOCNUM AS SONO, T0.DOCDATE AS SODATE,
SUM(T1.QUANTITY) AS SOQTY, T0.DOCTOTAL - T0.TOTALEXPNS AS SO_AMT, T3.DOCNUM AS DONO, T3.DOCDATE AS DO_DATE,
SUM(T2.QUANTITY) AS DOQTY, T3.DOCTOTAL - T3.TOTALEXPNS AS DO_AMT
INTO #MAIN
FROM
ORDR T0
JOIN RDR1 T1 ON T0.DOCENTRY = T1.DOCENTRY
LEFT JOIN DLN1 T2 ON T1.DOCENTRY = T2.BASEENTRY AND T1.LINENUM = T2.BASELINE AND T2.BASETYPE = T0.OBJTYPE
LEFT JOIN ODLN T3 ON T2.DOCENTRY = T3.DOCENTRY
LEFT JOIN OCRD T4 ON T0.CARDCODE = T4.CARDCODE
WHERE ISNULL(T0.U_OB_TID,0) <> 0
GROUP BY T4.U_OB_PCOMP, T0.CARDCODE,T0.CARDNAME, T0.U_OB_TID, T0.DOCNUM, T0.DOCDATE, T3.DOCNUM, T3.DOCDATE, T0.DOCTOTAL, T3.DOCTOTAL, T3.TOTALEXPNS, T0.TOTALEXPNS
my question is,
how to join the part 1 n part 2?
is there posibility?
Cursor Inside A Cursor
Oct 5, 2004I'm new to cursors, and I'm not sure what's wrong with this code, it run for ever and when I stop it I get cursor open errors
declare Q cursor for
select systudentid from satrans
declare @id int
open Q
fetch next from Q into @id
while @@fetch_status = 0
begin
declare c cursor for
Select
b.ssn,
SaTrans.SyStudentID,
satrans.date,
satrans.type,
SaTrans.SyCampusID,
Amount = Case SaTrans.Type
When 'P' Then SaTrans.Amount * -1
When 'C' Then SaTrans.Amount * -1
Else SaTrans.Amount END
From SaTrans , systudent b where satrans.systudentid = b.systudentid
and satrans.systudentid = @id
declare @arbalance money, @type varchar, @ssn varchar, @amount money, @systudentid int, @transdate datetime, @sycampusid int, @before money
set @arbalance = 0
open c
fetch next from c into @ssn, @systudentid, @transdate, @type, @sycampusid, @amount
while @@fetch_status = 0
begin
set @arbalance = @arbalance + @amount
set @before = @arbalance -@amount
insert c2000_utility1..tempbalhistory1
select @systudentid systudentid, @sycampusid sycampusid, @transdate transdate, @amount amount, @type type, @arbalance Arbalance, @before BeforeBalance
where( convert (int,@amount) <= -50
or @amount * -1 > @before * .02)
and @type = 'P'
fetch next from c into @ssn, @systudentid, @transdate, @type, @sycampusid, @amount
end
close c
deallocate c
fetch next from Q into @id
end
close Q
deallocate Q
select * from c2000_utility1..tempbalhistory1
truncate table c2000_utility1..tempbalhistory1
Client Side Cursor Vs Sever Side Cursor?
Jul 20, 2005I having a difficult time here trying to figure out what to do here.I need a way to scroll through a recordset and display the resultswith both forward and backward movement on a web page(PHP usingADO/COM)..I know that if I use a client side cursor all the records get shovedto the client everytime that stored procedure is executed..if thisdatabase grows big wont that be an issue?..I know that I can set up a server side cursor that will only send therecord I need to the front end but..Ive been reading around and a lot of people have been saying never touse a server side cursor because of peformance issues.So i guess im weighing network performance needs with the client sidecursor vs server performance with the server side cursor..I am reallyconfused..which one should I use?-Jim
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Jul 28, 2015I have a excel file which has a column called "Code" and their values are A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H. I want to create a new column called "status" based on the values of "Code".
Code:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
If A,C,E,G then "status" = "Active" else if B,D,F,H then "Status" = "Inactive". I like to do it using "Derived Column".
Transact SQL :: Calculate DateTime Column By Merging Values From Date Column And Only Time Part Of DateTime Column?
Aug 3, 2015How can I calculate a DateTime column by merging values from a Date column and only the time part of a DateTime column?
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow To Refer A Column When The Referencing Column Is An Identity Column
Oct 16, 2006Hi all,
The requirement is to have a table say 'child_table', with an Identity column to refer another column from a table say 'Parent_table'..
i cannot implement this constraint, it throws the error when i execute the below Alter query,
ALTER TABLE child_table ADD CONSTRAINT fk_1_ct FOREIGN KEY (child_id)
REFERENCES parent_table (parent_id) ON DELETE CASCADE
the error thrown is :
Failed to execute alter table query: 'ALTER TABLE child_table ADD CONSTRAINT
fk_1_ct FOREIGN KEY (child_id) REFERENCES parent_table (parent_id) ON DELETE
CASCADE '. Message: java.sql.SQLException: Cascading foreign key 'fk_1_ct' cannot be
created where the referencing column 'child_table.child_id' is an identity column.
any workarounds for this ?
Need Help With A Cursor
Jul 25, 2006I hope this is the appropriate forum for this question, if not then I apologize.
I've got a SQL Server 2000 stored procedure that returns data to be used in a crystal report in Visual Studio 2005. Most of the stored procedure works well, but there is a point where I need to calculate an average number of days been a group of date pairs.
I'm not familiar with cursors, but I think that I will need to use one to achieve the result I am looking for so I came up with the code below which is a snippet from my stored procedure. In this part of the code, the sp looks at the temporary table #lmreport (which holds all of the data that is returned at the end to crystal) and for every row in the table where the terrid is 'T' (the territory is domestic), it selects all of those territories from the territory table and loops through them to determine the date averages (by calling a nested stored procedure, also included below) for each territory and then updates #lmreport with that data.
When I try to run the stored procedure, I get "The column prefix '#lmreport' does not match with a table name or alias name used in the query." on the line indicated.
Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong or if this will even work the way I need it to?
Thank you in advance.
Cursor For
Sep 27, 2007Hi,
Declare wh_ctry_id CURSOR FOR
Is "cursor for" is a function or datatype or what is this?
Regards
Abdul
Use Of Cursor
Oct 21, 2007
I need some help with the concept of a Cursor, as I see it being used in a stored procedure I need to maintain.
Here is some code from the stored proc. Can someone tell me what is going on here. I haveleft out some of the sql, but have isolated the Cursor stuff.
Open MarketCursor -- How is MarketCursor loaded with data ?
FETCH NEXT
FROM MarketCursorINTO ItemID, @Item, @Reguest
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0BEGIN
DEALLOCATE MarketCursor
Is This Possible Without A Cursor?
Dec 5, 2007 I have something like
update table
set field = ...
where field = ...
and for each entry that was effected by this query I want to insert an entry into another table.
I have always done this with cursors is there a more effecient way? For some reason cursors run a lot slower on my sql2005 server than the sql2000 server...
How Cursor Used In Asp.net
Mar 17, 2008hii have creted cursor but i want to use in my asp.net programming when some insert or delete command is work that time i want to excute my cursor how can i do that using asp.net with c# waiting for replaythanks
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Sep 2, 2005Hello:
I am trying to define a cursor as follows:
DECLARE EmployeeList CURSOR FOR dbo.GetRecord(@EmployeeID,@CurrentDate)Can't I use a UDF in the CURSOR FOR ?Help please.thank you.
Need Cursor Help
Apr 4, 2006Hello, I'm trying to construct a cursor that will sequentually increment a number and then update a column with the incremented number. My propblem is that all the rows in the table are being updated with the base number +1. So all rows are updated with 278301. BUT, what I really want is for only the items with adrscode of 'bill to' to be given an incremented number.
For example, if there are only five rows of 100 with an adrscode = 'bill to' then only five rows will be updated and the value of the custnmbr should be, 278301, 278302, 278303 .....
I could really use some help with this cursor:
Declare @CustomerName as char (60), @seqno as int, @BaseSeqno as intset @Baseseqno = 278300
declare c cursor for select custnmbr from NXOFcustomers Where adrscode = 'BILL TO' order by custnmbropen cfetch next from c into @CustomerNamewhile @@fetch_status=0begin set @seqno = @BaseSeqno + 1
update NXOFcustomers set custnmbr = @seqnoWhere custnmbr = @CustomerName fetch next from c into @CustomerNameend close cdeallocate c
Cursor
Apr 20, 2001I have a cursor defined as follows
Declare c_cursor Cursor
Scroll For Select card_id From cardcreator where card_every_cat = @cat_id
Open c_cursor
/* Scroll to the randomly selected row and populate into output parameters */
Fetch absolute @iRandomRecord From c_cursor Into @vi_cardid1
print @vi_cardid1
/*Need to check to fetch status if you have reached end of record set begin from first */
select @@fetch_status
if (@@fetch_status = 0)
Begin
Fetch next from c_cursor into @vi_cardid2
print @vi_cardid2
End
if (@@fetch_status = 0)
Begin
Fetch next from c_cursor into @vi_cardid3
End
print @vi_cardid3
/* Close and deallocate cursor */
Close c_cursor
Deallocate c_cursor
I need to have atleast three records. But if random value starts the cursor at the end, the cursor would not wrap to the beginning.
Is there a way to wrap the cursor to begining if its status is not zero.
Cursor
May 22, 2001Are the cursors declared and opened in stored procedures are always the server cursors?
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Apr 13, 2000How can I do take the select of a stored procedure from another stored procedure.
Something like that:
PROC A
Declare c Cursor For Exec B
PROC B
Select * From Clients
Can I Not To Use Cursor?
Mar 18, 2003I am sure I am not the first one ask this.
I have got two tables, what I would like to do now is to update the second table using the values in the first table where
T1.id = T2.id, normally I have to use cursor to loop through table two to achieve this. But is it possible to do this without using cursor?
Thanks,
Alan
Cursor Help!
Apr 22, 1999This is what I am trying to do:
Table 1 has numerous resume's for each person. Each resume has a unique id.
ie: Table 1
res_id fname lname userid pwd address city state etc...
100 John Doe jd ok xxxx xxxx xx xxxx
104 Sally May sm sm ccccc cc c cc ccc
643 John Doe jd ok ssss null null
1003 John Doe jd ok 123 elm Nome AK ...
5000 Tom Cat tc tc null null null
I need to insert into Table 2 only the demographic information for each person appearing in Table 1. The catch is that Table 2 doesn't have the same unique id that appears in Table 1. userid and pwd are unique to Table 2 but are numerous in Table 1.
Table 2
new_ident userid pwd address city state etc..
10 jd ok 123 elm Nome AK ....
11 Sally May sm sm ccccc cc c cc ccc
12 Tom Cat tc tc null null null
Basically I need to choose the most current "max(res_id)" occurance for John Doe above to get only one row out of his three rows. Then I need to get all the other unique rows from table 1.
I hope that is clear. I was considering a cursor. Any ideas??
Troy
Cursor
Jun 17, 2002I am trying to build a cursor based on a query that uses a variable and cant seem to make it work..
Here is the query:
declare ob_cursor cursor for
select name
from @dbname.dbo.sysobjects
where xtype = 'U'
How could I pass this cursor declaration the database name?
Any help would be appreciated.
Cursor, Is It The Only Way?
May 18, 1999Is using cursor the only way to do update in this case.
I'm updating TableA.ID with TableB.New_id where TableA.ID =
TableB.ID. TableA has 2.5 million records and TableB has 500,000
records. Doing it this way bring the system down to it's knees, and
is taking forever. Any suggestion are welcome.
declare mrn_cur cursor for
select dealer_ident, kealer_id
from dealer
for read only
declare @result int
declare @temp_ident int
declare @temp_id int
declare @temp_var int
open mrn_cur
fetch mrn_cur into @temp_ident, @temp_id
while (@@fetch_status = 0)
begin
begin transaction
update label
set dealer_id = @temp_ident
where dealer_id = @temp_id
commit tran
fetch mrn_cur into @temp_ident, @temp_id
end
close mrn_cur
deallocate mrn_cur
go
Can I Do This Without A Cursor?
Jul 8, 2002Here's what I' trying to do...
I am writing an application for a training facility. I have three tables in particular that I'm concerned with.
Here they are with the relevent keys
1. Registrations - contains a customerid and a classid
2. Sessions - contains a classid (multiple sessions can exist for a class)
3. Attendence - contains a session and a customerid.
Whenever I insert a session record for a class, I want to automatically create a corresponding record in the attendence table for every student in the class . My only thought is to create an insert trigger on the session table than creates creates a cursor containing the customerid for every student registered in the class. Then I can walk through the cursor and insert an Attendence record for each student.
I really don't want to use a cursor if I can help it, but I can't think of a way to write an single INSERT statement to put into my trigger. Is there a way to do this without using a cursor?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
David
A BUG In Cursor Or What Is Going On???
Nov 30, 1998Hi, I have created a cursor to select 5 rows from a table , then I put the cursor in a store procedure, when I test the cursor the firt time I get correct results, but when I test it again in the same query window NOTHING happen?.... is this a BUG or am I doing something wrong, by the way, when I execute the procedure in another query window, I get it right. In conclusion, whenever I run the procedure more than once in the same query window the second try fails...but when I go to another query window it works.. I appreciate if anyone can explain why?
reagards
Ali
create procedure p_test_cursor as
DECLARE RST CURSOR
FOR SELECT counter,INVESTORID,BALANCE
FROM BALANCE
WHERE INVESTORID =300
OPEN RST
DECLARE @COUNTER INT,@INVESTORID INT, @BALANCE MONEY -- putting rst col in @
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS <>-1 -- mean when there is no error
BEGIN
SELECT @COUNTER ,@INVESTORID,@BALANCE
UPDATE BALANCE
SET OWNERSHIP =@COUNTER
WHERE COUNTER =@COUNTER
FETCH RST INTO @COUNTER ,@INVESTORID,@BALANCE
END
CLOSE RST
DEALLOCATE RST