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SoftwareGeek picture SoftwareGeek · Jun 15, 2010 · Viewed 31.4k times · Source

Is it good practice to use 'goto' statements in SQL queries?

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Nate picture Nate · Jun 15, 2010

Depends on the SQL - some of the dialects don't provide a useful mechanism for flow control other than GOTO.

GOTO is generally bad form.

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