>>>Most VFP apps are designed to use cursors (tables and views, basically the same thing).
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>>A cursor in VFP is a normalized object in memory that can be sql'd (read joined) together with actual tables in the DB. I still want to hear the argument that this was a bad idea.
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>quite often the cursor is denormalized on purpose, for instance populating grids to show vendor name instead of key...

In fact you're right. A cursor is a temporary table, no more no less. In fact if you want cursors, you can simulate it with temporary files in the db. You would conceptually get the same effect. Operationally that's another pair of sleeves as we would say in Dutch. That being said, if you check out you temp folder ....

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