Determining total number of records in a cursor

gives only the number of rows fetched. I want to know the total records that are present in the cursor before I actually start fetching the records from the cursor.

To get the number of records that the cursor will process do a SELECT statement using COUNT(*) which mimics your cursor SELECT statement prior to opening the cursor.

For example:
If your cursor statement is

  SELECT cust_id, lastname, discount_pct
    FROM customer
   WHERE state = v_state;
Then you'd get the count of records with
  SELECT count(*)
    INTO ctr_variable
    FROM customer
   WHERE state = v_state;

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