>Naomi , i try with
>
>select * from Student where Admtd = 1 ;
> into cursor curNewStudents nofilter<>
>now it is working and inserting the records
>But i do not know why your first step is not doing well.
>thanks

With this code you're not checking, if these students are already in Dly or not, so you would now have duplicates in Dly.