>On a network app I use an SQL statement to populate a cursor which then displays results in a grid. The data includes people's date of birth which I need to display as an age - but I understand I cannot maniplulate cursor contents (i.e by using the date of birth to calculate the age). Is there any way round this, i.e. allowing me to modify the results of the query once in the cursor? I am using a cursor as the output from the query because it is a network app and cannot export the result to a table in case more than 1 user tries to use the facility at the same time.

If uyou aren't trying to let the user change and update data in the grid directly, why not make the age computation during the SQL Select that populated the cursor?