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Performance basically. As SQL is a set based language you can often replace cursors (which are basically loops) with joins and that is orders of magnitude quicker for larger workloads.


Somehow I managed to avoid learning to use cursors and I have never seemed to need them. It seems like this was some kind of grace.




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