Well, that didn't work. I put the GO BOTTOM after the CursorFill. I still get the "alias is not found" error. Stepping through continues to make it work just fine. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

>>I'm converting a program to use SQL Server on the back end and I've written a test program to ensure that I can talk to SQL Server, fill cursors, make changes, and save the changes to the back end. The program opens the tables, populates some cursors and does some tableupdates. If I just let it run, it gets to one point and says the cursor does not exist, but if I step through it, it works fine. I can reproduce this at will. So it's like VFP is too fast for SQL Server. It's expecting the cursor to be filled, but it isn't. Will I have to put delays in this program to let SQL Server finish its job? Anyone seen this before?
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>Add a go bott statement for all your cursors your returning from the server. You think your getting alot of data, VFP does, but it's not.
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>That should fix it.
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>Oh and are you pulling entire tables from the back end? If so, STOP THAT. This is now client server and no longer xBase.