This document discusses cursors in PL/SQL. It defines a cursor as a pointer that is used to point to individual rows in a database table. It explains that there are two types of cursors: implicit cursors and explicit cursors. Implicit cursors are used automatically for SQL statements and have attributes like %FOUND and %ROWCOUNT to check the status of DML operations. Explicit cursors must be declared, opened, values fetched from them into variables, and then closed to access multiple rows from a table in a controlled manner using PL/SQL.