What are cursors?

Answer Posted / harshad

As this would be not specific DW Concept but rather more on
RDBMS Programming concept.

Cursor is nothing but the pointer of memory addres to your
query result.

Explicit Cursor : User need to specifically declared in
your program (procedure/function)

Implicit Cursor : Any DML; it will handled by RDBMS.

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