>>>In reports (sometimes in forms), I can use over half a dozen temporary cursors to extract and format data. Does anyone have a clever way of closing all cursors used in a report. I have grown tired on manually destroying all cursors at the end of a method or upon the closing of a report.
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>>>Since I open all my tables at the start of the app (still the old fashioned way), I could count the highest table # and when a report or form is release make a loop to close tables and cursors higher than than number. Is there a more clever way?
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>>If you make the report have a private DE, you don't have to think about it. The *USE* command has an option *NoRequery DSID* where you can put *1* for the DSID and it will use the information in the already opened tables in the default DS (i.e., little or no performance hit).
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>I don't understand... perhaps we are talking about two different things.
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>The temporary cursors that I am refering to are created using SQL-select statements. It is these that I want to close, not the actual tables.

Regardless, if all this is done in a private DS, all will be released when the form is released or the report is finished. I actually use a form class to generate my reports. The form has a private DS, and I add methods to open tables, views and create cursors. Then I have a method to run the report.

I have taken advantage of the *USE NOREQUERY 1* command to open already opened views (you get the same data already in the view) without taking a performance hit. I can live with the minimal hit on using tables again. In your case, I would be placing the Select-SQL commands in a method in the form.

When I release the form, all tables, views and cursors are closed for me.