I was afraid that was the answer. Is there anything I need to watch out for using RECCOUNT()? Everything seems to be working fine for now. I'm using this to see if the SQL returns any "child" records before deleting a parent record.

Thanks for the help.
Doug

>>Is there a command similar to _TALLY to determine the number of items returned by a SQLEXEC SELECT statement? I am currently using RECCOUNT() on the cursor that is returned. Is there a better way?
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>>Thanks,
>>Doug
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>Nope.