>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'.

That's right, I overlooked the fact that you already used NOFILTER. reccount() should give you correct results in this case. The potential problem with _tally is that several commands might change its value - as Jaime explains, that might even happen within the query itself (perhaps by a UDF), but it may also be due to some other command you give later.

For instance:

select ... from ... into cursor ... && 10 records, _tally should be 10
count for 1 = 0 && overwrites value of _tally to 0
? _tally

The code as you posted it doesn't pose this problem, but you may have additional code which you didn't post.

Hilmar.