Department of Information Technology

Academic Year: 2019-2020 Semester: III

Class/Branch: SEIT
Subject: SQL Lab

Experiment No. 7

1. Aim:- To study and implement Cursors in database.

2. Theory:-

A cursor allows to iterate a set of rows returned by a query and process them accordingly.
Cursors can be created inside a stored procedure to handle the result set returned by a query.
Mysql cursors are read-only and non-scrollable. Cursors process the results set of returned by a
query row by row.

Select * from employee;

It will display the output in one go, whereas if you use cursors it will display the output row by
row which can be seen in the following screenshot.

Steps for working with corsors:

- Declare <cursor_name> for select_statement
- Open <cursor_name> initializes the result set for operation
- Fetch curosr_name into variable list to retrieve the next row pointed by the cursor and move the
cursor to the next in the result set.
- Close <cursor_name> to deactivate the cursor and release any memory associated with it.

Before implementing the new curosr first check whether any procedure of same name already
exist not , if it does then drop it firstly and then execute the new one.
Dropping the procedure:

syntax:
drop procedure proc_emp;

syntax: