How To Open and Close an Explicit Cursor

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How To Open and Close an Explicit Cursor? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Cursors in PL/SQL

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An existing cursor can be opened or closed by the OPEN or CLOSE statement as shown in the following sample script:

DECLARE
  CURSOR c_list IS SELECT * FROM countries;
  CURSOR t_list IS SELECT * FROM employees
    WHERE employee_id = 100;
BEGIN
  OPEN c_list;
  OPEN t_list; 
  CLOSE c_list;
  CLOSE t_list; 
END;
/

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