Cursor Behaviors

Both ODBC and Transact-SQL cursors support specifying cursor characteristics using the SQL-92 cursor behaviors of scrollability and sensitivity.

Cursor behaviors are specified in the following ways:

Transact-SQL cursors use the SQL-92 syntax of specifying SCROLL and INSENSITIVE before the CURSOR keyword on the DECLARE statement.
The ODBC API uses the SQL_ATTR_CURSOR_SCROLLABLE and SQL_ATTR_CURSOR_SENSITIVITY statement attributes.