It's not necessarily philosophical :). For example, you may index a cursor and it's usually has physical TMP presense. I guess it's just some MS devt omission :). That's another story that SET DELETED ON is enough to clear up the problem.

>There are going to be some differences of course. Pack physically removes records from a table. Since cursors have no physical existence (I love philosophy :-) Packing (and Sorting, for example) don't really have any meaning.
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>If you tell us why you are wanting to pack the cursor, maybe we could offer some alternatives...
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>>That's the same thing I get. I thought you could do the same things to cursors
>>as you could do with tables.