首先，你应该绝对确定你需要遍历每一行——基于行集的操作在我能想到的任何情况下都会执行得更快，通常会使用更简单的代码。

根据您的数据，可能只使用SELECT语句循环，如下所示:

Declare @Id int

While (Select Count(*) From ATable Where Processed = 0) > 0
Begin
    Select Top 1 @Id = Id From ATable Where Processed = 0

    --Do some processing here

    Update ATable Set Processed = 1 Where Id = @Id 

End

另一种方法是使用临时表:

Select *
Into   #Temp
From   ATable

Declare @Id int

While (Select Count(*) From #Temp) > 0
Begin

    Select Top 1 @Id = Id From #Temp

    --Do some processing here

    Delete #Temp Where Id = @Id

End

您应该选择的选项实际上取决于数据的结构和容量。

注意:如果您正在使用SQL Server，您将更好地使用:

WHILE EXISTS(SELECT * FROM #Temp)

使用COUNT将不得不触及表中的每一行，EXISTS只需要触及第一行(参见Josef的回答)。

像这样定义临时表-

declare @databases table
(
    RowID int not null identity(1,1) primary key,
    DatabaseID    int,
    Name        varchar(15),   
    Server      varchar(15)
)

-- insert a bunch rows into @databases

然后这样做——

declare @i int
select @i = min(RowID) from @databases
declare @max int
select @max = max(RowID) from @databases

while @i <= @max begin
    select DatabaseID, Name, Server from @database where RowID = @i --do some stuff
    set @i = @i + 1
end

SELECT @pk = @pk + 1

会更好:

SET @pk += @pk

避免使用SELECT如果你没有引用表，只是分配值。

这将在SQL SERVER 2012版本中工作。

declare @Rowcount int 
select @Rowcount=count(*) from AddressTable;

while( @Rowcount>0)
  begin 
 select @Rowcount=@Rowcount-1;
 SELECT * FROM AddressTable order by AddressId desc OFFSET @Rowcount ROWS FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY;
end 

如果您别无选择，只能逐行创建FAST_FORWARD游标。它和构建while循环一样快，而且更容易长期维护。

FAST_FORWARD 指定一个启用性能优化的FORWARD_ONLY、READ_ONLY游标。如果还指定了SCROLL或FOR_UPDATE，则FAST_FORWARD不能指定。

-- [PO_RollBackOnReject]  'FININV10532'
alter procedure PO_RollBackOnReject
@CaseID nvarchar(100)

AS
Begin
SELECT  *
INTO    #tmpTable
FROM   PO_InvoiceItems where CaseID = @CaseID

Declare @Id int
Declare @PO_No int
Declare @Current_Balance Money


While (Select ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY PO_LineNo DESC) From #tmpTable) > 0
Begin
        Select Top 1 @Id = PO_LineNo, @Current_Balance = Current_Balance,
        @PO_No = PO_No
        From #Temp
        update PO_Details
        Set  Current_Balance = Current_Balance + @Current_Balance,
            Previous_App_Amount= Previous_App_Amount + @Current_Balance,
            Is_Processed = 0
        Where PO_LineNumber = @Id
        AND PO_No = @PO_No
        update PO_InvoiceItems
        Set IsVisible = 0,
        Is_Processed= 0
        ,Is_InProgress = 0 , 
        Is_Active = 0
        Where PO_LineNo = @Id
        AND PO_No = @PO_No
End
End