| SQL adaptation guide for Oracle MySQL 5.x, MariaDB 10.x / BDL programming | |
Informix® supports insert cursors. An "insert cursor" is a special BDL cursor declared with an INSERT statement instead of a SELECT statement. When this kind of cursor is open, you can use the PUT instruction to add rows and the FLUSH instruction to insert the records into the database.
For Informix database with transactions, OPEN, PUT and FLUSH instructions must be executed within a transaction.
MySQL does not support insert cursors.
Insert cursors are emulated by the MySQL database interface.