>>BTW: those repeated replace commands on the same "in cAPP" cursor are cruel and unusual punishment for your CPU at least, in case of a materialized (as in disk-based) cursor for your disk as well ;-)
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>I have a love/hate relationship with my computer. In some cases it's making me suffer (as in the last problem I had with inserting in a cursor). So when I can make it suffer I don't hesitate. ;-)
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>I know I know about those multiple replaces. Old habits die hard. Some times I have multiple replaces some times only one.
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>Thanks Thomas.

Of course it goes without saying that in the course of debugging a problematic REPLACE, that splitting it into multiple ones is probably in order.