what is a cursor

Answer Posted / t.r.sekhar

cursor is a temporary buffer used to hold the transactional
data for the manipulation purpose.
data will not permanently stored in database.
it is not reusable.

syntax:
cursor <cursor name> is <select stmt);
we have two types of cursors are there.
1.implicit cursors-automatically created whenever dml
statements are executed.
2.explicit cursors-created by user

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