Hi Sergey

I take your advice on board, thx

but I only have 4 records in LINEMARKINGHEAD, but the cursor has 39 records in it?

>It's better to use JOINs and formatimg to make your query readable
>

>SELECT linemarkinghead.icustno, customers.ccompany, sites.name ;
>	FROM linemarkinghead ;
>		JOIN customers ON linemarkinghead.icustno = customers.icustno ;
>		JOIN sites ON linemarkinghead.siteno = sites.code ;
>	INTO CURSOR tmp
>

>
>The only way you get more records by adding joins, if there're duplicate icustno in customers or/and code in sites.
>
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>>I'm trying to create a cursor from three tables
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>>LINEMARKINGHEAD (parent)
>>CUSTOMERS (child) ICUSTNO
>>SITES (child) CODE
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>>I want to extract all records from LINEMARKINGHEAD, but have the cursor contain the customer name and sitename. The line below works fine:-
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>>SELECT linemarkinghead.icustno,customers.ccompany FROM linemarkinghead,customers WHERE linemarkinghead.icustno=customers.icustno INTO CURSOR  listtmp

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>>but when I try to add the site I get far too many records:
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>>SELECT linemarkinghead.icustno,customers.ccompany,sites.name FROM linemarkinghead,customers,sites WHERE ;
>>linemarkinghead.icustno=customers.icustno AND linemarkinghead.siteno=sites.code INTO CURSOR  tmp

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>>Can you not have two children in a SELECT SQL statement?