A cursor is a temporary work area created in the system memory when a SQL statement is executed. A cursor contains information on a select statement and the rows of data accessed by it. An explicit ...

The cursor can only reference one row at a time, but can move to other rows of the result set as needed. To use cursors in SQL procedures, you need to do the following: Declare a cursor that defines a ...

A cursor is a database object that can be created at runtime. it is used to get data from a result set line by line(or row by row) rather than executing all the rows in the result set at a single time ...

Learn how to use a cursor in SQL DB2 stored procedures to process multiple rows of data from a query result set. Find out how to declare, open, fetch, close, and deallocate a cursor.

SQL Server 2008 provides a minimal set of tools — cursors and WHILE loops — to accomplish this task. I’ll take a closer look at each option and explain why it’s difficult to pinpoint which ...