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Re: PL/SQL Cursor question..

From: KevJohnP <nospam_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:38:59 +1300
Message-ID: <SQcEb.32871$VV6.762072@news.xtra.co.nz>


Cursor is opened at the beginning of the for loop, navigated row at a time each iteration of the loop then closed at the end of the for loop.

kb wrote:
> Hi guys/gals.
> If I have a piece of code that declares a cursor, and then a piece of code
> that calls it in a For Loop statement,
>
> CURSOR xx
> Select....etc...
> xxx
>
>
> FOR <whatever> in <CURSOR> LOOP
> xx
> xx
> xx
> ENDLOOP
>
> My question is, does the Cursor get run once, returning a list that the FOR
> LOOP code then loops through, or is the cursor actually called over and over
> again by the FOR statement?
> Sorry for the rookie question!!! Thanks!
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 18 2003 - 01:38:59 CST

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