>It's a series of SQL SELECTs with no intermediate processing.
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>It roughly goes as follows:
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>- SELECT a subset of records with specific characteristics (has a UNION)
>- SELECT some records INNER JOINed on first above
>- 4 UNIONed SELECTs to get additional records of interest also INNER JOINed on first above
>- FULL JOIN of last 2 above, producing result set of interest. All other results ignored.
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>It just seems to me that I should be able to do this using SPT, returning the single final cursor of interest.
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>>Jim,
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>>If your earlier selects all do insert into #tables there won't be any result to come back. You can create a temporary SP, call it and drop it. But overall the best thing to do is write a bonafide SP that SQL can create a decent query plan for and call it.
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>>>But I think there's gotta be a way directly, as opposed to a SP.
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>>>Do you think SP is the only way?

Check Boris' reply. You could use SP,UDF,temp SP alternatively, provided you have right to do so.
Cetin