DOH! I see that now. You are scanning 'CURSOR' but updating 'TABLE' based on field value in 'CURSOR'. Next time I will read a little closer.

>There is a 1 to 1 relation between the table and the cursor and the cursor consists of a set of records with unique pk.
>So I need to step the cursor record by record in order to know which record in the table to update.
>
>>You do not need SCAN and ENDSCAN. The WHERE clause will update all matching records in the table. Use SCAN and ENDSCAN when you need to process records 1 at a time. SCAN/ENDSCAN is the same as DO WHILE NOT EOF(), SKIP, ENDDO without the need for the SKIP command.
>>
>>>I did like this:
>>>
>>>SELECT 'CURSOR'
>>>SCAN
>>> UPDATE 'TABLE' SET 'FIELD' = 'VALUE' WHERE 'PK_TABLE' = 'CURSOR.PK_CURSOR'
>>>ENDSCAN
>>>
>>>This is really fast takes only a few secs to complete.
>>>
>>>>I'm gonna try the standalone IDX and if that doesn't help I'm gonna use the good old SCAN. Thanks for the help.
>>>>
>>>>>Did you try both a standalone IDX and then a CDX tag? If that didn't help, then you may want to use good old DML stuff like:
>>>>>
>>>>>SELECT cursor
>>>>>SCAN
>>>>> SELECT table
>>>>> SEEK cursor.pk_field
>>>>> REPLACE table.field WITH "whatever"
>>>>> SELECT cursor
>>>>>ENDSCAN
>>>>>
>>>>>>It didn't help at all it still takes about 15 mins to complete the UPDATE.
>>>>>>This shouldn't take that long? Perhaps the problem is the SUB SELECT?