>>Even then you would still use ZAP to get an empty cursor.
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>>http://my.advisor.com/doc/SILVL14-01
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>You would not zap prior to a requery()

That'd be an overkill, indeed. The previously present records are discarded in a requery() anyway, there's no need to zap them... unless you woke up with an unexplainable urge to zap :).