>can you expound on that method a bit?im more familiar with using Replace and SQL to populate my tables

A cursor is a table which is stored in memory, and is typically used to store temporary data. Since you "Select into table Greater", I wonder whether Greater is a table used for permanent storage of data, or only temporary date?

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