what are the advantages of cursors than procedures?

Answer Posted / somashekhar m

By using cursors It is possible to fetch row by row, when
user might want to work with rows one at a time. But not
possible with SQL standard statements it is not possible to
go row by row fetching.
A cursor can be defined as is a set of rows together with a
pointer that identifies a current row.

in ACID cursor works for consistency of the data.

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