>George,
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>Maybe I'm stuck in my old ways, but I don't use the report DE. My forms that drive the reports typically just build the necessary SQL-SELECT and the report runs against the currently selected alias. If I have more than one report using the same cursor I promote the cursor creation code to a level both report control objects can see and call.
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Naw, David, I don't think you're "stuck". As a matter of fact, most of my reports are generated via SQL-SELECTs. Let me qualify that. All of my summary reports are generated by SQL-SELECTs. Certain listings, however, do use the DE.

The thought was that if the DE could developed, especially visually, independently of the form or report, it might not only provide additional ease of development, but would abstract it at the same time, provding additional flexibility as well.

Just a thought.