Hmm. It's been years since I've worked with VFP and Oracle. But there must be a mechanism in PL/SQL to return a result set. There has to be, otherwise Oracle would not work too well with front-ends.

>Oracle does not return any thing from a procedure unless it is passed by reference. It is therefore impossible for a cursor to be returned from a stored procedure. SQL pass through of a select statement doesn’t call a stored proc so it will return a cursor.