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The site had the following in the homepage, "Set-based processing Vs Row-based processing Cursor Loop." I noticed that the web site stated " When writing database queries in something like TSQL or PLSQL, we often have a choice of iterating over rows with a cursor to accomplish the task, or crafting a single SQL statement that does the same job all at once." They also stated " Also, we have the choice of simply pulling a large set of data back into our application and then processing it row by row, with C or Java or PHP or whatever. Why is it better to use set-based queries? SQL Server uses locking to."