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Revised Oracle Cursor iteration

Here is a more efficient approach to using a cursor in Oracle:

 
FOR myCursor_rec IN myCursor  LOOP
 ...
END LOOP;


And then from within the loop you can access elements in the cursor record like this:

 
myCursor_rec.vAuthSeq;

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