Types of cursors and explanation each of them ?

Answer Posted / giri

Cursor is a pointer or handler to context area.there are
three types if cursors
1.implicit cursor: Every SQL statment between begin and end
are implicit cursors.sql%found,sql%notfound,sql%is open,sql%count these are the implicit cursor attributes.
2.explicit cursor:As a name user has to explicitly
create,open and close cursors.%found,%notfound,%is open,%count these are the explicit cursor attributes.
3. ref cursor: Reference cursor is a datatype which holds
the value of a cursor.

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