SQL Server Cursor Types - What are Static Cursors in SQL Server | SQL Server Tutorial / TSQL Tutorial

Cursors are the objects those allow us to access the data row by row from result set.

Static Cursor make the copy of result set in memory at time of cursor creation and use that temporary result set to return rows. If any changes are made to original table/s data such as insert, update or delete. The Static cursor does not update stored result set with those changes unless we close the cursor and reopen.

Static Cursors are scrollable (First,Last,Prior,Next,Relative,Absolute)

Script for Static Cursor in SQL Server used in the video as well.

--drop table dbo.Customer
Create table dbo.Customer ( 
CustomerId Int Identity(1,1),
CustomerName VARCHAR(100),
StreetAddress VARCHAr(100),
City VARCHAR(100),
State CHAR(2))
go

--Insert couple of Records in Sample Table
Insert into dbo.Customer
Select 'Aamir shahzad','Test Street Address','Charlotte','NC'
Union 
Select 'M Raza','Test Street Address','Charlotte','NC'

Select * from dbo.Customer

--Insert NEW Record
Insert into dbo.Customer
Select 'John Smith','Test Street Address','New York City','NY'

--Delete Records
Delete from dbo.Customer
Where CustomerName in ('Aamir Shahzad','M Raza')

--Update All Record
Update dbo.Customer
set CustomerName='NO NAME'




--Cursor Script

Declare @CustomerID INT
Declare @CustomerNAme VARCHAR (100)
DECLARE @StreetAddress VARCHAR(100)
DECLARE @City VARCHAR(100)
DECLARE @State CHAR(2)

--DECLARE A CURSOR
DECLARE CUR CURSOR
STATIC
FOR
Select CustomerID,CustomerName,StreetAddress,City,State from dbo.Customer

--OPEN CURSOR
OPEN CUR
Print 'CURSOR IS OPEN'
--FETCH NEXT RECORD
FETCH NEXT FROM CUR INTO @CustomerID,@CustomerNAme,@StreetAddress,@City,@State
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS=0
BEGIN 
RAISERROR ('',0,1) WITH NOWAIT
WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:15'
PRINT CONCAT(@CustomerID,' ',@CustomerNAme,' ',@StreetAddress,' ',@City,' ',@State)
FETCH NEXT FROM CUR INTO @CustomerID,@CustomerNAme,@StreetAddress,@City,@State

END
CLOSE CUR
DEALLOCATE CUR

Detailed video on Static Cursor in SQL Server.