More anomalies?

Is there any way to get the results of a SQL statment into an updatable cursor? We've noticed that if you use SELECT ..... INTO CURSOR, the resultant cursor is read only and can't be updated with INSERT or UPDATE statements.

Cursors created with CREATE CURSOR behave just like tables and can be UPDATED, ALTERED, or INSERTED.

The problem I'm trying to get beyond is the whole issue of temporary files when creating elaborate queries. Ideally, I'd like to use cursors instead of creating tables for queries requiring multiple intermediate steps.

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