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plsql - What is the difference between explicit and implicit cursors in Oracle?

I am a bit rusty on my cursor lingo in PL/SQL. Anyone know this?

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An implicit cursor is one created "automatically" for you by Oracle when you execute a query. It is simpler to code, but suffers from

  • inefficiency (the ANSI standard specifies that it must fetch twice to check if there is more than one record)
  • vulnerability to data errors (if you ever get two rows, it raises a TOO_MANY_ROWS exception)

Example

SELECT col INTO var FROM table WHERE something;

An explicit cursor is one you create yourself. It takes more code, but gives more control - for example, you can just open-fetch-close if you only want the first record and don't care if there are others.

Example

DECLARE   
  CURSOR cur IS SELECT col FROM table WHERE something; 
BEGIN
  OPEN cur;
  FETCH cur INTO var;
  CLOSE cur;
END;

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