Thanks guys for your replys,, for a moment I thought I saw a posting
in wich you can actually do the Modi Struc for a View cursor,,
but I think is different.
What I wanted to do is,that usually I work with large tables for diff
projects and certain fields (not all the fields) for example,
name, address , city state zip dpb fields need to be formated in a specific
format for BuscroEktajet machines for Bulk Mail processing and I tough
if I created a cursor with the req fields and then add some temp ones
then most of the formating routines will run wayyy faster in memory rather
than I/O process in the original table.
that's all, some of my tables are about 1.5M records and 500,00 recds

thanks
Mark

>Hi Mark,
>
>>I think someone ask this before , but once you get your cursor
>>after a " Select fields, into cursor Mycursorx', can I change
>>that cursor (Mycursor) structure somehow, or it is Read-Only
>>always...
>
>It is possible, but I wouldn't do it. With the SELECT statement you can create exactly the table you want. What kind of manipulation are you trying to do?
>
>Christof