>I'm really stuck with the following problem :

Pascal,

Another suggestion is to add the NOFILTER clause that will force VFP to create a physical cursor. Here is what help says:

"Include NOFILTER to create a cursor that can be used in subsequent queries. In previous versions of Visual FoxPro, it was necessary to include an extra constant or expression as a filter to create a cursor that could be used in subsequent queries. For example, adding a logical true as a filter expression created a query that could be used in subsequent queries:

SELECT *, .T. FROM customers INTO CURSOR myquery

Including NOFILTER can reduce query performance because a temporary table is created on disk. The temporary table is deleted from disk when the cursor is closed."

José