Hi,
I have also been here too long also, I was working on the wrong table.

>>Hi,
>>Both yours and Sergeys answers still give "Too Complex" errors.
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>Are you sure that curRemove is the real cursor (created with NOFILTER clause)?
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>How big are both cursors?
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>You can also try
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>select PatID from curRemove ;
>LEFT JOIN curExcept on curRemove.PatID = curExcept.PatID ;
>where curExcept.PatID IS NULL into cursor curReallyRemove nofilter
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>delete Pattern from Pattern inner JOIN curReallyRemove on Pattern.PaidID = curReallyRemove.PatID

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>I think both mine and Sergey's queries were wrong originally. But it's funny we both made the same mistake. It just shows that we have been here too long :)