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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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CLOSE

CLOSE cursor_name;

Closes an explicit cursor. After all rows have been fetched, a cursor needs to be closed. Closing a cursor enables the PL/SQL memory optimization algorithm to release the associated memory at an appropriate time.

If you declare a cursor in a local anonymous, procedure, or function block, that cursor will automatically close when the block terminates. Cursors that are declared in a package must be closed explicitly, or they stay open for the duration of your session. Closing a cursor that is not open raises an INVALID CURSOR exception.

Keyword

cursor_name

Name of the cursor declared and opened.

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