Cursors
Microsoft® SQL Server™ statements produce a complete result set, but there are times when the results are best processed one row at a time. Opening a cursor on a result set allows processing the result set one row at a time. SQL Server version 7.0 also introduces assigning a cursor to a variable or parameter with a cursor data type.
Cursor operations are supported on these statements:
These system functions and system stored procedures also support cursors: