01 Jul 2011
If you don’t want to use a cursor, here is a strategy that should work…
use BeatTheBookie --Build up the list to iterate over set rowcount 0 select distinct NULL mykey, Name into #foreachTeam from dbo.Team --update the pointer for the first element in the list set rowcount 1 update #foreachTeam set mykey = 1 while @@rowcount > 0 begin set rowcount 0 --Do what you need to here for each item in the list --pop the current item off the list delete from #foreachTeam where mykey = 1 --update the pointer to the next item in the list set rowcount 1 update #foreachTeam set mykey = 1 end set rowcount 0
See here for more information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/111401/en-gb