>Do you mean you would try to deallocate cursor that didn't exist? Let me try, though you can always use TRY/CATCH in 2005.
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>Well, it did produce an error if the variable was not declared:
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>Must declare the scalar variable "@myCursor".

Yes, TRY/CATCH would have done it. But, Sergey mentioned to declare it local which is exactly what I need.