Question

I am trying to run a loop in SQL that loops untill a field is found that equals to something. for example

while exists (select account from #nodes where account IS NOT EQUAL TO 'STRATERGY')

But I dont know how to do this, I want it to loop untill it finds the word STRATERGY in one of the fields in the account column.

Can Anyone lend a hand?

Thanks

Answer 1

From your query I am assuming you have to do some actions on each account which is equal to ‘STRATERGY’. If so use a cursor instead of loop.

If I my assumption is wrong please check this

something like this.

DECLARE @intFlag INT
select @intFlag =count(*) from #nodes where account IS NOT EQUAL TO 'STRATERGY'
WHILE (@intFlag >1 )
BEGIN
PRINT @intFlag
select @intFlag =count(*) from #nodes where account IS NOT EQUAL TO 'STRATERGY'
END
GO