>Cursoradapter is an in memory representation of underlying data. Cursoradapter uses the fox data engine to retreive and process data. Since Cursoradapter is a disconnected view of the data, it is less susceptible to data corruption.

Huh???? What does a "disconnected view" have to do with data corruption?

Also, I suppose that use of CURSORADAPTER() forces us to code for prior update by another user, right?

just trying to learn more