Re: views & cursors

From: Jerry Gitomer <jgitomer_at_ictgroup.com>
Date: 1998/03/10
Message-ID: <35054170.4DE5@ictgroup.com>#1/1

Hi Martin,

A cursor is an area in memory used for processing SQL statements in PL/SQL, PRO*C, and similar products. It's purpose is to allow procedural programs to access data going to/from Oracle tables.

A view is a virtual table (with some limitations a table doesn't have) that is usually either a subset of a table or the result of a join of two or more tables. Its purpose is to hide the details of the data base from the user.

Regards

Jerry

Martin Meadows wrote:
>
> Quick newbie question from someone who doesn't have a manual to refer
> to: how are cursors & views different?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin Meadows

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Jerry Gitomer         	ICT Group
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Received on Tue Mar 10 1998 - 00:00:00 CST