As I said in the previous message, you have duplicates in the customers or/and sites tables.

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>I take your advice on board, thx
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>but I only have 4 records in LINEMARKINGHEAD, but the cursor has 39 records in it?
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>>It's better to use JOINs and formatimg to make your query readable
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>>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
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>>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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