Introduction to MySQL cursor To handle a result set inside a stored procedure, you use a cursor. A cursor allows you to iterate a set of rows returned by a query and process each row accordingly.

-- A cursor in database is a construct which allows you to iterate/traversal the records of a table. -- In MySQL you can use cursors with in a stored program such as procedures, functions etc. -- In ...

By using a cursor, SQL Server can iterate both new and old ad ‘reading from table’. Similarly, the declaration ‘FOR EACH ROW’ is the channel through which MySQL uses an implicit loop.

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