cursor (Transact-SQL)
Applies to:
SQL Server
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Managed Instance
A data type for variables or stored procedure OUTPUT parameters that contain a reference to a cursor.
Remarks
The operations that can reference variables and parameters having a cursor data type are:
- The DECLARE @local_variable and SET @local_variable statements.
- The OPEN, FETCH, CLOSE, and DEALLOCATE cursor statements.
- Stored procedure output parameters.
- The CURSOR_STATUS function.
- The sp_cursor_list, sp_describe_cursor, sp_describe_cursor_tables, and sp_describe_cursor_columns system stored procedures.
The cursor_name output column of sp_cursor_list and sp_describe_cursor returns the name of the cursor variable.
Any variables created with the cursor data type are nullable.
The cursor data type cannot be used for a column in a CREATE TABLE statement.
See also
CAST and CONVERT (Transact-SQL)
CURSOR_STATUS (Transact-SQL)
Data Type Conversion (Database Engine)
Data Types (Transact-SQL)
DECLARE CURSOR (Transact-SQL)
DECLARE @local_variable (Transact-SQL)
SET @local_variable (Transact-SQL)