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Re: Cursor Question

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Travis Crow (noreply@invalid.org) writes:
> If I declare a cursor with a "where clause", is that "where clause" 
> evaluated when I declare the cursor or when I open it?
 
It depends on the type of cursor. There are four types: DYNAMIC, KEYSET, 
STATIC and FAST_FORWARD.

If you have a dynamic cursor, the query is essentially evaluated each time 
you do FETCH. That is, rows that are added to the table while the cursor is 
running will be visible.

With a static cursor, the result set of the cursor is saved to a temp 
table and the rows are served from this table. I believe this happens at 
OPEN time, but you could easily test to find out.

With a keyset cursor, only the keys are saved to the table, and remaining 
rows are read from the real table at FETCH.

With FAST_FORWARD, I don't even know what happens.

I strongly recommend to stick with STATIC cursors.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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Cursor Question Travis Crow <noreply@invalid.org> - 2011-12-02 11:04 +0000
  Re: Cursor Question Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-12-02 12:35 +0100
    Re: Cursor Question Travis Crow <noreply@invalid.org> - 2011-12-02 12:03 +0000

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