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Understanding Cursor Classes and Concepts

This chapter describes the Oracle OLAP API Cursor class and its related classes, which you use to retrieve and gain access to the results of a query. This chapter also describes the Cursor concepts of position, fetch size, and extent. For examples of creating and using a Cursor and its related objects, see Chapter 9.

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Overview of the OLAP API Cursor Objects
• About Cursor Positions and Extent
• About Fetch Sizes and Fetch Blocks