How to access cursor state in SQL Server Management Studio

Question

I am trying to debug an application that interacts with an SQL Server database. It does this in part using database cursors.

While stepping through the application I would like to see the state of a specific cursor using SQL Server 2012 Management Studio (which has a connection to the database in use).

How do I do this? Or is there some other tool with which I can do this?

Answer 1

select c.*
from sys.dm_exec_sessions s
cross apply sys.dm_exec_cursors(s.session_id) c

David