What is the difference between implicit and explicit cursor in Oracle Database

Whenever we issue an INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE or single row SELECT INTO statement, Oracle creates a implicit cursor to deal with this operation.

An explicit cursor, is a cursor in which the cursor name is explicitly assigned to a SELECT statement via the CURSOR … IS  statement.


As programmers, we can also create explicit cursors. These cursors work like a pointer to each row that is retrieved and allow us to work in each row at a time.

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