>"Cursors" as in the ability to define and create tables on-the-fly in memory which may or may not have a disk presence, create indexes on fields in those tables, add/delete/edit >data in those tables, use them in reports and other purposes and then, when closed, they disappear.

I agree. Python Dabo does exactly as you describe and more. Which one if the reasons I went with Dabo and python (actually love the language).

Johnf