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>>SELECT Equipdesc.assetid, Equipdesc.location, Equipdesc.area_id, 0000.0 AS meter;
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>>ThisForm.Grid1.RecordSource = ThisForm.Grid1.RecordSource
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>Sorry I forgot to tell you, you cannot use select to populate the cursor. That creates a read only cursor. use select and create an array. Then append from an array to the cursor. The cursor has to be created using 'CREATE CURSOR' command before the form is fired.
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>Alhad

Oh it is possible - simply

Select [whatever] into cursor first
select 0
use (dbf("first")) again alias second

Now it's read/write. I think this is already in the FAQ, and if it isn't, it should be. We've seen this many times already.