>>My point was that backends don't 'have' record pointers, or even 'use' record pointers, front-ends do.
>So how does VB navigate through a local "cursor" selected from a backend SQL source. With VFP we have all sorts of features to help to this. What features does VB have to srvice cursor navigation?

VB doesn't use Cursors, it uses any of a number of other data access methods, the most common being ADO. ADO Recordsets have several methods like

oRS.MoveFirst()
oRS.MoveNext()
?oRS.EOF()

Etc.