## 1.4.5 Cursor Options

Once you have connected to the database you will need a `Cursor` object with which to manipulate the database. Cursor stands for a "CURrent Set Of Results".

Once we have the connection to the database, `connection`, we can easily create a cursor by calling the `connection`'s `cursor()` method.

    import web, web.database
    connection = web.database.connect(adapter="mysql", database="test")
    cursor = connection.cursor()

The next sections show you the different ways to use the `cursor`.