It's different. I think VFP uses the same underlying mechanism for SPT cursors as for remote views. Try to turn off buffering on SPT cursor and you'll get following error "Views require either DB_BUFOPTROW or DB_BUFOPTTABLE".
>Thank you for this information. I will keep this in mind too.
>But I am just wondering how is a SPT cursor different from a cursor you create from a VFP table? There must be something, of course.
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