This structure is the most basic of all the loop constructs including FOR LOOP and WHILE LOOP. This basic LOOP statement consists of a LOOP keyword, a body of executable code, and the END LOOP ...

A cursor is a pointer to this context area. PL/SQL controls the context area through a cursor. A cursor holds the rows (one or more) returned by a SQL statement. The set of rows the cursor holds is ...

Oracle’s PL/SQL language has two basic mechanisms for getting data from the database: SELECT and cursors. SELECT is designed to return a single row into local variables; cursors give you the ability ...