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Understanding Cursor Classes and Concepts

Chapter summary

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.

List of topics

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Overview of the OLAP API Cursor Objects

• Cursor Class

• CursorManagerSpecification Class

• CursorSpecification Class

• CursorManager Class

• CursorManagerUpdateListener Class

• About Cursor Positions and Extent

• About Fetch Sizes and Fetch Blocks