What is difference between a Cursor declared in a procedure
and Cursor declared in a package specification ?
Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback
Answer / tulsi
A cursor declared in a package specification is global and
can be accessed by other procedures or procedures in a
package.
A cursor declared in a procedure is local to the procedure
that can not be accessed by other procedures.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 40 Yes | 2 No |
Answer / ratan singh sengar
SP is a set of SQL Statements that resides in server. Advantage of SP is just that it is pre compiled and available in the server. So, whenever this SP is called, its executed instantly since its already been compiled. This makes the faster performance while executing the SP.
cursor:
Cursors are add on feature of SP , for row by row validations.
For instance : You have a list of employees belong to various department. For calculating the bonus % which varies for department to department, you use cursors to calculate Bonus.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 4 No |
Is a foreign key always unique?
What is cursor and why it is required?
a table has 2 classifications 1)liabilities 2)earnings this liabitity has 2 elements with 2 input values and the earnings have 2 elements with 2 input values i wrote a query so that my input is liability savings amount1 amount2 xxxx null xxxxxx 0 xxx1 null xxxxx1 0 null yyyy 0 yyyy null yyy1 0 yyy1 my problem is --when i developed a report(d2k) with this data my o/p is liabilities,amount1,savings,amount2 xxxx xxxxxx xxx1 xxxxx1 yyyy yyyy yyy1 yyy1 how could i move this savings,savings values 2 palces up. can any body provide me witha better solution
How do you delete a table?
What are different types of tables in sql?
i have a table emp and columns ename,empno,mgr_id,i need ename,manager name as result i.e employee respective manager.. example empno ename mgr_id 1 john 3 2 paul 3 3 smith 1 4 kevin 1 5 stewart 2 result has to look like this ename manager john smith paul smith smith john kevin john stewart paul can u plz help me out in this.....
explain the difference between myisam static and myisam dynamic. : Sql dba
Is pl sql useful?
What do you think about pl/sql?
what is acid property in database? : Sql dba
Is it possible to access the current value in a session before accessing next value?
What are commit, rollback, and savepoint?
Oracle (3259)
SQL Server (4518)
MS Access (429)
MySQL (1402)
Postgre (483)
Sybase (267)
DB Architecture (141)
DB Administration (291)
DB Development (113)
SQL PLSQL (3330)
MongoDB (502)
IBM Informix (50)
Neo4j (82)
InfluxDB (0)
Apache CouchDB (44)
Firebird (5)
Database Management (1411)
Databases AllOther (288)