Characteristics of Cursors

You can use cursors to work with sets of data on an ODBC data source. Cursors can:

• Represent some or all records in a single table.
  
  
• Represent some or all records in a multiple-table join.
  
  
• Represent no records.
  
  
• Be read-only or updatable at either the cursor or the field level.
  
  
• Be fully scrollable, meaning that you can move forward and backward through the records, or they can be forward-only scrolling.
  
  
• Exist on either the client or the server.