>>I do the same all the time, but I always start with a blank cursor. What happens if you do the same?
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>Hi Tore,
> I tried your suggestion, I wrote CREATE CURSOR ... just prior to the SQL SELECT statement but again I received the same error.
>
> I wonder if it has to do with the fact that the cursor I created is based on another cursor which is also the result of an SQL-Select.
>
>Best regards, Chaim

Are you sure that the second select statement actually selects any records at all? If you try

Select ... into cursor somecursor readwrite && Your second select statement
Select 0 && Just to make sure that you are in another work area for a moment
Select dbf('somecursor') && If thie line errors, you have not selected any records!!
Browse && Do you see any records