RE: Which is beter a cursor or a for loop?

>Hello,
>
>I was just asked by one of our developers which is
>beter to use:-
>a cursor or a for loop?
>I must admit I am not sure....
>
>Anyway the specific piece of code in discussion is
>similar to the
>following....
>
> FOR X IN (SELECT X FROM TABLE_NAME
> WHERE COL1 = 'Something'))
> LOOP
> Do a whole lot of stuff in database
>here......
> LOOP END;
>
>I would guess that the cursor would follow similar
>execution criteria but
>using
>the cursor syntax.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>TIA
>regards
>Denham Eva
>Oracle DBA
>The real problem is not whether machines think but
>whether men do.
>- B. F. Skinner

Down with loops.

Regards,

Stephane Faroult
Oriole

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