That is a very good tip...

Thanks again,
Chris

>When you run the SELECT it is read-only. However you add one more line of code:
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>Select ..... into cursor MyTempCursor
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>USE dbf('MyTempCursor') again in 0 alias MyReadWriteCursor
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>The USE again makes a read-write copy. Note how the dbf() function gets around not knowing what the cursor is really named. This ONLY works if you have a 'real' cursor, so use the NOFILTER clause if there is a chance your cursor will be a filtered recordset. If you don't have a calculated field and if your cursor comes from a single table, you will have to use NOFILTER.
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>HTH
>Barbara
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>>I thought a cursor created with a SQL select was read-only..is there a way to make it read-write w/o selecting to a table?
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>>Chris