How to disable output of crusors

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How to disable output of crusors

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ozSQLServer
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32 Posts

Posted - 2011-11-16 : 19:54:11

Hi all,

I've got a code that simple loop through rows in a table using cursors. I've noticed for each returned row, it's being displayed in SMSS.

Is there a way to avoid displaying every row returned from the cursor?


begin
 SET XACT_ABORT ON
 set nocount on
 DECLARE curemployee CURSOR FOR SELECT BusinessEntityID FROM HumanResources.Employee2
 BEGIN TRANSaction
 OPEN curemployee 
 FETCH FROM curemployee 
 
 WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 
 BEGIN 
   FETCH FROM curemployee 
 END 
CLOSE curemployee 
DEALLOCATE curemployee  
end 
GO

Cheers,
ozSQL

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2011-11-16 : 20:27:21

You need to put the data into variables:

DECLARE @s varchar(50)
...

FETCH FROM curemployee INTO @s

...

FETCH FROM curemployee INTO @s

Tara Kizer
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server System - SQL Server
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ozSQLServer
Starting Member

32 Posts

Posted - 2011-11-16 : 23:47:53

Got it.. thanks a lot!

Cheers,
ozSQL

tkizer
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38200 Posts

Posted - 2011-11-17 : 13:27:53

You're welcome, glad to help.

Tara Kizer
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X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2011-11-17 : 13:33:57

But WHY are you using a cursor?

Cursors in SQL Server are very bad

99.99% of the time you don't need one

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X002548
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Posted - 2011-11-17 : 13:35:27

See...another SQL Server...ahem..."feature"

I never knew you could fetch from a cursor...INTO Nothing

Brett

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X002548
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Posted - 2011-11-17 : 13:35:54

Sure saves a lot on compiler code

Brett

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