>>Why you need CURSOR?
>>In 90% of time there is no need of it.
>>Sorry if I asked a question already answered, but I didn't follow the whole thread so far, I just stared.
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>Is there a way to fetch a SQL result without having it in a cursor?
It depends.
Sometimes you can have the loop w/o using cursors, sometimes you can't.
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