#------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Copyright (c) 2016, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. # # Portions Copyright 2007-2015, Anthony Tuininga. All rights reserved. # # Portions Copyright 2001-2007, Computronix (Canada) Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, # Canada. All rights reserved. #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # ScrollableCursors.py # This script demonstrates how to use scrollable cursors. These allow moving # forward and backward in the result set but incur additional overhead on the # server to retain this information. # # This script requires cx_Oracle 5.3 and higher. #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ from __future__ import print_function import cx_Oracle import SampleEnv connection = cx_Oracle.connect(SampleEnv.MAIN_CONNECT_STRING) # show all of the rows available in the table cursor = connection.cursor() cursor.execute("select * from TestStrings order by IntCol") print("ALL ROWS") for row in cursor: print(row) print() # create a scrollable cursor cursor = connection.cursor(scrollable = True) # set array size smaller than the default (100) to force scrolling by the # database; otherwise, scrolling occurs directly within the buffers cursor.arraysize = 3 cursor.execute("select * from TestStrings order by IntCol") # scroll to last row in the result set; the first parameter is not needed and # is ignored) cursor.scroll(mode = "last") print("LAST ROW") print(cursor.fetchone()) print() # scroll to the first row in the result set; the first parameter not needed and # is ignored cursor.scroll(mode = "first") print("FIRST ROW") print(cursor.fetchone()) print() # scroll to an absolute row number cursor.scroll(5, mode = "absolute") print("ROW 5") print(cursor.fetchone()) print() # scroll forward six rows (the mode parameter defaults to relative) cursor.scroll(3) print("SKIP 3 ROWS") print(cursor.fetchone()) print() # scroll backward four rows (the mode parameter defaults to relative) cursor.scroll(-4) print("SKIP BACK 4 ROWS") print(cursor.fetchone()) print()