what is a cursor

Answer Posted / gourvendra singh

A Cursor is a handle (a name or pointer) for the memory
associated with a specific statement. It is of two type
Implicit and explicit, we usually create explicit cursor
for our sql statements, we can also save them by providing
them a name.

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