What are cursors? Explain different types of cursors?

Answer Posted / preethi

Cursors are work areas used for internal processing in
order toexecute an SQL statement.

Two tpes of Cursors
Implicit Cursors and Explicit Cursors.
Explicit Cursors can be further classifed into three
Named Cursors,Parameterized Cursors and Ref Cursors

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