Chaim
FWIW, i never trust _TALLY as a mean to check for records in SQL queries. My guess is that depending on the query you are trying to run, _TALLY may get updated many times by the internal system, and a subquery could overwrite the results of the main query etc...
I don't see why not to use reccount() on the cursor after it's built.
Jaime

>Sorry, I don't think that you resolved my problem.
>Perhaps I didn't explain it well:
>I have the problem with my old way (_tally) and the problem resolved when I started to use with the new way (reccount()).
>My question was why my old way stopped to work and _tally started to return (sometimes) the value 0 even that there is a lines in the cursor.
>
>PS
>As you can see I used with 'noilter'.