Result set and cursor mechanisms A result set maintains a cursor, which points to its current row of data. It can be used to step through and process the rows one by one. Cursorsworking with ResultSetsworking with

In , any SELECT statement generates a cursor which can be controlled by a java.sql.ResultSet object. does not support SQL-92's DECLARE CURSOR language construct to create cursors, however supports positioned deletes and positioned updates of updatable cursors.