# WHERE CURRENT OF clause

The WHERE CURRENT OF clause is a clause in some UPDATE and DELETE statements. It allows you to perform positioned updates and deletes on updatable cursors. For more information about updatable cursors, see SELECT statement.

#### Syntax

    WHERE CURRENT OF cursor-Name

    Statement s = conn.createStatement();
    s.setCursorName("AirlinesResults");
    ResultSet rs = conn.executeQuery(
        "SELECT Airline, basic_rate " +
        "FROM Airlines FOR UPDATE OF basic_rate");
    Statement s2 = conn.createStatement();
    s2.executeUpdate("UPDATE Airlines SET basic_rate = basic_rate " +
        "+ .25 WHERE CURRENT OF AirlinesResults");

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