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I believe Oracle is the only major database which uses the REF CURSOR type, so I will assume you are using Oracle. REF CURSORS are used in PL/SQL, Oracles procedural language, so I'll give you an example in a snippet of PL/SQL code.
Cursors in Oracle have attributes, such as %FOUND, %NOTFOUND, %ISOPEN, and %ROWCOUNT. When appended to the name of the cursor, they return useful information about its execution. %ROWCOUNT is the attribute that will give you the information you're looking for. Here is an example:
declare
type tWeakCursor is REF CURSOR;
cMyCursor tWeakCursor;
vTable_Name varchar2(30);
begin
open cMyCursor for 'select * from user_tables';
loop
fetch cMyCursor into vTable_Name;
exit when cMyCursor%notfound;
dbms_output.put_line( to_char(cMyCursor%rowcount) ||
') ' || vTable_Name );
end loop;
close cMyCursor;
end;
The %ROWCOUNT attribute returns the current row count of the cursor. After the cursor is opened, %ROWCOUNT is equal to zero. After every successful FETCH, ROWCOUNT is incremented by one.
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