There are cases where using Cursor would do you more harm than good. It uses considerably large amount of resources in your server and not to mention that it can cause leaks if not used correctly (Eg. Open without corresponding Close). That’s why most T-SQL developer often suggest to avoid it whenever possible. Here is a sample code on how to travese a result set and get values of each row using a While Loop instead of a Cursor.

–identity INT (1,1) - surrogate PRIMARY KEY
declare @tempTable table(id int identity(1,1),employeeName varchar(25),employeePosition varchar(25))

insert into @tempTable
select ‘John’,'Manager’

insert into @tempTable
select ‘Joe’,'Vice President’

insert into @tempTable
select ‘Mary’,'Secretary’

declare @rowCount int
select @rowCount = count(*) from @tempTable

declare @counter int
select @counter = 1

while @counter <= @rowCount
begin

select * from @tempTable where id = @counter

select @counter = @counter + 1
end

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