PL_SQL_Cursor What are Cursors? A cursor is a temporary work area created in the system memory when a SQL statement is executed. A cursor contains information on a select statement and the rows of ...

In PL/SQL, you can refer to the most recent implicit cursor as the SQL cursor, which always has attributes such as %FOUND, %ISOPEN, %NOTFOUND, and %ROWCOUNT. The SQL cursor has additional attributes, ...

I know I could do this with a PL/SQL cursor to iterate over the list of existing agent_ids but I was wondering I could do this with pure SQL using a combination of DISTINCT and SELECT INTO.

How to Open a PL/SQL File. PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) files contain database code that represents information that you can manipulate using Oracle operating systems and ...

Tim Chapman discusses your iteration choices in SQL Server 2008 and explains why determining which option performs better depends on the situation.