Order by at cursor

Like:

DECLARE cur CURSOR FOR
(
    SELECT * FROM 
    (
         SELECT TOP 9999999999 -- Necessary...
              col_1 
             ,... 
             ,col_n 
         FROM TABLE_XY 
         ORDER BY WHATEVER
    ) AS TempTableBecauseSqlServerSucks 
)

      

        
        
        
      

    

Real world example:

IF  EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[sp_DELDATA_Delete_NON_SOFT_ByForeignKeyDependency]') AND type in (N'P', N'PC'))
DROP PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_DELDATA_Delete_NON_SOFT_ByForeignKeyDependency]
GO





-- =============================================
-- Author:      Stefan Steiger
-- Create date: 22.06.2012
-- Description: <Description,,>
-- =============================================
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_DELDATA_Delete_NON_SOFT_ByForeignKeyDependency]
AS 
BEGIN 
    DECLARE @ThisCmd varchar(500)


    DECLARE cur CURSOR
    FOR 
    (   
        SELECT * FROM 
        (           
            SELECT TOP 9999999999
                -- Lvl
                --,TableName
                --,
                'DELETE FROM [' + TableName + '] WHERE [' + 
                (
                    SELECT 
                        INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS.COLUMN_NAME
                    FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS  
                    WHERE INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS.TABLE_NAME = V_DELDATA_Tables_All.TableName 
                    AND INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS.COLUMN_NAME LIKE '%Status'
                ) + '] = 99; ' AS cmd

            FROM V_DELDATA_Tables_All
            WHERE (1=1) 
            AND TableName LIKE  'T_%' 
            AND TableName NOT LIKE  'T_Ref_%' 
            AND TableName NOT LIKE  'T_RPT_%' 
            AND TableName NOT LIKE  'T_Import_%' 
            AND TableName NOT LIKE  'T_Export_%' 

            ORDER BY Lvl DESC, TableName ASC 
        ) AS SqlServerSucks

    ) --End For

    OPEN cur 

    FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @ThisCmd 
    WHILE @@fetch_status = 0 
    BEGIN 
        PRINT @ThisCmd 
        --EXECUTE(@ThisCmd) 
        FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @ThisCmd 
    END 
    CLOSE cur 
    DEALLOCATE cur 

END


GO

      

        
        
        
      

    

For some reason, the other subquery based answers didn't work for me. It kept dropping rows of SQL Server 2012. In this particular case ~ 100 rows were fetched from the view of some static data crossed with table data.

The cure was to declare the cursor as " forward_only static ":

    declare mappingsCursor cursor local forward_only static for
        select top 2000000000
               a, b, c, d
          from MappingsView
         order by a, b, c, d;

      

        
        
        
      

    

Ref: Why cursor opened for selection with ORDER does not reflect updates to the following table

Does anyone know the default cursor type when there is an order? Why not always work for "static" data?