What are the disadvantages of cursors? How can you avoid cursors?

What are the disadvantages of cursors? How can you avoid
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What are the disadvantages of cursors? How can you avoid cursors?..

Answer / rahul kumar

A) In cursors each time you fetch a new row it does a round
trip with the database thereby increase network use and time.

B) There is also restriction on select statements that can be
used in cursors

C) It also uses more resources and temporary memory

Cursors can be avoided with the help of careful
implementation of while loop and other set based operations

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What are the disadvantages of cursors? How can you avoid cursors?..

Answer / gogune s k

Overload for RAM to process each row and time consuming.
Bulk collect can be used in place of cursors in some cases.

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