why we use cursor?

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why we use cursor?..

Answer / yoshita kundwani

Cursors can be considers as named result sets which allow a
user to move through each record one by one.

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why we use cursor?..

Answer / anil

Cursor allow row by row fetching records

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why we use cursor?..

Answer / manoj kumar singh

When we want to update row depending on certain criteria. we
will loop through all rows and update data accordingly.
There's where cursors come in to picture.

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why we use cursor?..

Answer / sid

Cursors can be considers as named result sets which allow a
user to move through each record one by one.

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