Oracle Fetch Cursor

In Oracle, You can use the FETCH statement to retrieve rows from your cursor. After declaring and opening the cursor, the next step is to use the FETCH statement to fetch rows from your cursor.

Oracle Fetch Cursor Syntax

To retrieve the rows from declared cursor in Oracle, use the following syntax:

Syntax

FETCH cursor_name INTO variable_list;

Parameters:

cursor_name: The name of cursor.

variable_list: List of comma delimited variables to store the cursor result set.

Oracle Fetch Cursor example

The following Oracle example shows how to retrieve rows from cursor:

Example

CREATE OR REPLACE Function SearchCustomer
  ( cust_name IN varchar2 )
  RETURN varchar2
IS
   adder varchar2;

   CURSOR cur1
   IS
     SELECT address
     FROM tblCustomerLoan
     WHERE firstName = cust_name;

BEGIN

   OPEN cur1;
   FETCH cur1 INTO adder;
   CLOSE cur1;

RETURN adder;
END;

Note:

In the above example, shows how to use the Fetch statement to retrieve rows from cursor.

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