Get Multiple Values in SQL Server Cursor - sql

Question

I have a cursor containing several columns from the row it brings back that I would like to process at once. I notice most of the examples I've seeing on how to use cursors show them assigning a particular column from the cursor to a scalar value one at a time, then moving to the next row,
e.g.
OPEN db_cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO #name
WHILE ##FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
--Do Stuff with #name scalar value, then get next row from cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO #name
END
What I want to know is if it's possible to do something like the following:
OPEN db_cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor;
WHILE ##FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
SET #myName = db_cursor.name;
SET #myAge = db_cursor.age;
SET #myFavoriteColor = db_cursor.favoriteColor;
--Do stuff with scalar values
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor;
END
Help is always appreciated.

Answer 1

This should work:
DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT name, age, color FROM table;
DECLARE #myName VARCHAR(256);
DECLARE #myAge INT;
DECLARE #myFavoriteColor VARCHAR(40);
OPEN db_cursor;
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO #myName, #myAge, #myFavoriteColor;
WHILE ##FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
--Do stuff with scalar values
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO #myName, #myAge, #myFavoriteColor;
END;
CLOSE db_cursor;
DEALLOCATE db_cursor;

Answer 2

Do not use ##fetch_status - this will return status from the last cursor in the current connection. Use the example below:
declare #sqCur cursor;
declare #data varchar(1000);
declare #i int = 0, #lastNum int, #rowNum int;
set #sqCur = cursor local static read_only for
select
row_number() over (order by(select null)) as RowNum
,Data -- you fields
from YourIntTable
open #cur
begin try
fetch last from #cur into #lastNum, #data
fetch absolute 1 from #cur into #rowNum, #data --start from the beginning and get first value
while #i < #lastNum
begin
set #i += 1
--Do your job here
print #data
fetch next from #cur into #rowNum, #data
end
end try
begin catch
close #cur --|
deallocate #cur --|-remove this 3 lines if you do not throw
;throw --|
end catch
close #cur
deallocate #cur