I'm an old card punch COBOL programmer. I used to TEACH that decrementing loops are faster than incrementing loops but the fastest way is to avoid the loop in the first place. I used to use string arrays to buffer lines from a text file when I had to check the checksum in the foote...
don't and will never do those things. But if they are GOING to write a cursor because that is all they know then knowing that fast_forward is faster than dynamic or that CLR (if they work in that) is faster than TSQL in some cases can make an improvement in their abilities that is...