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Re: REF Cursor

From: Thomas J. Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: 2000/06/08
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In article <393EAE5E.ADEBE743_at_email.com>,   ken <kckcabc_at_email.com> wrote:
> Can someone explain what REF cursor is? or where I can find info.
 about
> it?
>
>

they are "pointers" to cursors. They are used predominantly for getting result sets from stored procedures.

See
http://osi.oracle.com/~tkyte/ResultSets/index.html

for some examples.

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