How to avoid cursors?

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How to avoid cursors?..

Answer / mahima

to avoid cursor use CASE and SET .
to give increment to the employee depending upon the salary

update empsal
set
case when sal between 2000 AND 3000 then sal+1000
when sal between 3000 AND 4000 then sal+2000
end

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How to avoid cursors?..

Answer / veeresh kethari

1.By using case.. set,we can avoid the cursors

2.By using temporary tables/table variables/CTE
with while loop we can avoid cursor in the transaction.

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How to avoid cursors?..

Answer / sunny

update salary set sal=(
case
when sal between 100 and 300 then sal + 1000
when sal between 300 and 500 then sal + 2000
when sal between 500 and 700 then sal + 3000
end)

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