How to write a foreach in SQL Server?

Question

I am trying to achieve something along the lines of a for-each, where I would like to take the Ids of a returned select statement and use each of them.

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Answer 1

This generally (almost always) performs better than a cursor and is simpler:

    DECLARE @PractitionerList TABLE(PracticionerID INT)
    DECLARE @PractitionerID INT

    INSERT @PractitionerList(PracticionerID)
    SELECT PracticionerID
    FROM Practitioner

    WHILE(1 = 1)
    BEGIN

        SET @PracticionerID = NULL
        SELECT TOP(1) @PracticionerID = PracticionerID
        FROM @PractitionerList

        IF @PracticionerID IS NULL
            BREAK

        PRINT 'DO STUFF'

        DELETE TOP(1) FROM @PractitionerList

    END