CONTINUE (Transact-SQL)

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Restarts a WHILE loop. Any statements after the CONTINUE keyword are ignored. CONTINUE is frequently, but not always, opened by an IF test. For more information, see WHILE (Transact-SQL) and Control-of-Flow Language (Transact-SQL).