Coding standards and guidelines are very important for any developer on the path to a successful career. A coding standard is a set of guidelines, rules and regulations on how to write code. Coding standards should be flexible enough or should take care of the situation where they should not prevent best practices for coding. They are basically the guidelines that one should follow for better understanding.
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Whenever we want to loop something we always look for logic like WHILE LOOP or FOR LOOP. Trust me on my word that both of them are cursor when it is about SQL Server.
This question is one of those questions which is very simple and most of the users get it correct, however few users find it confusing for the first time. I have tried to explain the usage of simple WHILE loop in the first example. BREAK keyword will exit the stop the while loop and control is moved to the next statement after the while loop. CONTINUE keyword skips all the statement after its execution and control is sent to the first statement of while loop. Run following examples in Query Editor and see the result. This is very easy to understand example for CONTINUE and BREAK keywords.