What is a cursor ? Why Cursor is required ?

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What is a cursor ? Why Cursor is required ?..

Answer / anil kumar jampana

cursor is a private sql area. pl/sql cann't handle multy
row select statements. Inorder to handle mulyrow select
statements, we are using cursors.

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What is a cursor ? Why Cursor is required ?..

Answer / raam

Cursor is a private memory area. to perform transations on
morethan one row we are using cursors. required multi-
records will be fetched to cursor area and will do
operations on those records. It is a temperary memory area.
Winthout Cursor pl/sql can perform only one record at a
time.

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What is a cursor ? Why Cursor is required ?..

Answer / suresh

cursor is private sql area. cursor is used for to retrieve
or display the more than one values at a time.

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