What is a cursor ? Why Cursor is required ?

Answer Posted / raam

Cursor is a private memory area. to perform transations on
morethan one row we are using cursors. required multi-
records will be fetched to cursor area and will do
operations on those records. It is a temperary memory area.
Winthout Cursor pl/sql can perform only one record at a
time.

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