Amy Pasko
Help. Writing Your Dissertation with ... Writing Software Requirements Specifications. Here’s the scenario: You’re finishing up your latest HTML Help project…no more late nights or weekends…back to a “normal” 50-hour work week.
That’s when the development team lead strolls into your office and says she just got your manager’s okay for you to help the development team “put together the software requirements specifications template for the next major project.” “A what?” You ask with a look of semi-shock. Panic sets in. “What did I do to deserve this? There Must Be 15 Ways To Lose Your Cursors... part 1, Introducti. A long, long time ago, it was not possible to do everything in the SQL language that a database developer or a DBA might need to do with just set-based SQL.
And thus was born the Cursor. The bastard love-child of the declarative relational database language SQL and her first wild fling with a much more experienced and confident procedural programming language (whose identity is still unknown), the Cursor arrived in the early 80's amid promises and predictions to fix all manner of ills in the house of SQL.
And at first, that's how it appeared. Anything that set-based SQL couldn't do on her own, her erstwhile son would step right in and handle for her. In fact he handled so many things for her, that she became convinced that she could not get by without him.