>Let me describe what I was trying to do (initially) and how/why I changed my mind.
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>I have a procedure where the user selects any number of records in a Parent table. Then, in the WHILE look, the program has to update many Child tables (adding, changing, deleting). Initially I wanted to have each Child table records of all Parent records. So that I would have just ONE TableUpdate(). This would be nice but, I decided, not practical.
>1. For any Child table, it is very difficult to get All records for All Parent records. So I thought that, as the code goes from one Parent record to another, I would "get/add" records from the Child table. But this is not easy. Since, I found, that you cannot add records to the CA cursor incrementally. It has to be done one time.
>2. The other problem is that the resulting CA cursor (or any Child table) can be so big that it may be a problem to update the DB table (in TableUpdate()). For example, it theory, a Child table could end up having, say 10,000 rows. I have never done updates from CA cursors that big.
>3. So I decided that each Parent record will be processed, Child tables will be updated, TableUpdate() for the Parent and Child will be fired.
>4. Then the Parent pointer will go to the next record.

OK, the whole thing makes sense now. Except "you cannot add records to the CA cursor incrementally" - with buffering at 5, you should be able to do that, as long as there's no tableupdate() before you're completely done.