Jim,

>Thanks! So what's the advantage of writing to a cursor with NOFILTER rather than creating a table on disk? The maintenance? having VFP deal with the creation and removal of the cursor on disk? Since it writes to disk don't I loose the speed I was hoping to have using a cursor?

Often files "written to disk" are held in memory by VFP, so you may not see much speed difference unless the result set is very large.