A cursor is a handle to the context area that Oracle creates to process a SQL statement. Every SQL statement executed in a session uses a cursor. PL/SQL provides implicit cursors (automatically ...
Reports the attributes of a server cursor. Otherwise, @cursor_identity is the name of a cursor variable associated with an open cursor. The following table shows the format of the cursor that is ...
A cursor is a database object used to process the rows of a result set one at a time. While cursors are a powerful tool for row-by-row operations, they're generally considered an anti-pattern in T-SQL ...
Tim Chapman discusses your iteration choices in SQL Server 2008 and explains why determining which option performs better depends on the situation. In a previous TechRepublic column about SQL Server ...
Reports the attributes of the columns in the result set of a server cursor. Otherwise, @cursor_identity is the name of a cursor variable associated with an open cursor. 16 = Updatable column (set for ...