About Cursor in Oracle

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Can anyone explain me difference between ref cursor and simple cursor in oracle
with proper example.

Thanking you in advance,

Shilpi

Posted 28-Jun-12 18:49pm

pinki30dec

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2012-06-28T19:15:00

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REF cursor is a dynamic cursor that supports change of query at runtime. Typically, REF cursor is used to return a record set or a cursor from stored procedure.
where as
Normal cursor is a static cursor where the query is assigned at design time and it can not be changed at runtime.

Refer:
MSDN: Working with Oracle REF CURSORs[^]
Oracle/PLSQL Topics: Cursors[^]

Posted 28-Jun-12 19:15pm

Sandeep Mewara

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pinki30dec 29-Jun-12 1:21am

Thanks for your reply,..But i want a code so that i can understand how these two terminology practically different..

Sandeep Mewara 29-Jun-12 2:55am

Whats so confusing right now?

Further, the link shared has examples for them. Did you see?