A database cursor is similar to the cursor on a word processor screen. As you press the down arrow key, the cursor scrolls down through the text one line at a time. Pressing the Up Arrow key scrolls your cursor up one line at a time. Pressing other keys such as Page Up and Page Down results in a leap of several lines in either direction. Database cursors operate in the same way. Database cursors enable you to select a group of data, scroll through the group of records(often called a recordset), and example each individual line of data as the cursor points to it. You can use a combination of local variables and a cursor to individually examine each record and perform any external operations needed before moving on to the next record.yo One other common use of cursors is to save a query's results for later use. A cursor's result set is created from the result set of a SELECT query. If your application or procedure requires the repeated use of a set of records, it is fast...