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Difference between explicit and implicit cursor

user12075620Nov 5 2013 — edited Nov 5 2013

Hi, I am going through multiple threads in the google to understand the difference between between these two constructs. Finally  when i read the asktom.oracle.com , I was totally confused. The reason is that

Tom says...we can retrieve more than one row in implicit cursor. If that would be case, what's the difference between these two cursors?? when to use??

My understanding was

implicit cursors" ---> single-row query

Explicit cursors ---> multi-row query

Experts - Please clarify. Thanks for your wonderful service to oracle community.

Thanks & Regards,

Richard

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