Hi Sergey

>It's hard to say w/o knowing what "Do other stuff" doing. The second one looks cleaner to me.

I have updated them as follows. The other stuff works on local cursors/tables. Thanks for responding.

>>What is more efficient:
>>

SQL PT dataset (variable no of records but within a range of records)
>>INDEX on a field
>>
>>SELECT local cursor
>>SCAN
>>   SEEK(in "MySQLPTCursor")
>>   REPLACE in the local cursor
>>ENDSCAN

>>
>>

>>SELECT local cursor
>>SCAN
>>   SQL PT single record as needed
>>   REPLACE in the local cursor
>>ENDSCAN