What are cursors? Explain different types of cursors?

Answer Posted / daudkhan

A point to context area which has infromation for Oracle to
process SQL statements.
Cursors allow to fetch rows returned by a select statement.

Implicit cursor: Automatically declared
Explicit cursor: defined by programmer

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