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description: "Fetching Data"
title: "Fetching Data | Microsoft Docs"
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ms.date: "01/19/2017"
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# Fetching Data
The process of retrieving rows from the result set and returning them to the application is called *fetching*. This section describes how to fetch data.  
  
 This section contains the following topics.  
  
-   [Cursors](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/cursors.md)  
  
-   [Fetching a Row of Data](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/fetching-a-row-of-data.md)  
  
-   [Getting Long Data](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/getting-long-data.md)