Difference between FETCH/FOR to loop a CURSOR in PL/SQL

Question

I know that fetching a cursor will give me access to variables like %ROWCOUNT, %ROWTYPE, %FOUND, %NOTFOUND, %ISOPEN

...but I was wondering if there are any other rea

Answer 1

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think both have one nice feature what other one doesn't have.

With for loop you can do like this:

for i in (select * from dual)
  dbms_output.put_line('ffffuuu');
end loop;

And with open .. fetch you can do like this:

declare
  cur sys_refcursor;
  tmp dual.dummy%type;
begin
  open cur for 'select dummy from dual';
  loop
    fetch cur into tmp;
    exit when cur%notfound;
    dbms_output.put_line('ffffuuu');
  end loop;
  close cur;
end;

So with open fetch you can use dynamic cursors but with for loop you can define normal cursor without declaration.