POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The Daily WTF [again] : Re: The Daily WTF [again] Server Time
21 Jul 2025 21:41:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Daily WTF [again]  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 12 Feb 2008 15:26:57
Message: <47b20111$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> 
> Just being curios... What's a 'cursor', and why is that bad?
> 

Cursors occupy resources on the server, and require the server to 
maintain application state. The general understanding in n-tier systems 
is the only thing that retains application state is the front-end 
application, so resources on back-end servers can be released to other 
clients.


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