How To Fetch the Next Row from a Cursor with a "FETCH" Statement in SQL Server Transact-SQL?

When the result set is ready in a cursor, you can use a FETCH statement to retrieve one row from the result set in the same format as a SELECT statement. The FETCH statement has the following formats:

FETCH NEXT FROM cursor_name;
FETCH PRIOR FROM cursor_name;
FETCH FIRST FROM cursor_name;
FETCH LAST FROM cursor_name;
FETCH ABSOLUTE n FROM cursor_name;
FETCH RELATIVE n FROM cursor_name;

The tutorial exercise below shows you how FETCH statements are used to retrieve the first row and the second row back from a cursor:

USE FyiCenterData;
GO

DECLARE fyi_cursor CURSOR FOR
  SELECT * FROM fyi_links;
OPEN fyi_cursor;

FETCH NEXT FROM fyi_cursor; 
FETCH NEXT FROM fyi_cursor; 

CLOSE fyi_cursor;
DEALLOCATE fyi_cursor;
GO
id   url                notes       counts  time
---- ------------------ ----------- ------- -----
101  dev.fyicenter.com  NULL        NULL    NULL
(1 row(s) affected)

id   url                notes       counts  time
---- ------------------ ----------- ------- -----
102  dba.fyicenter.com  Nice site.  8       NULL
(1 row(s) affected)

⇒ "FETCH" - Transferring Data from Cursors to Variables in SQL Server

⇐ "OPEN" - Executing the Query of a Cursor in SQL Server

⇑ Using Cursors in SQL Server Transact-SQL

⇑⇑ SQL Server Transact-SQL Tutorials