>Thanks for the input Steve. I was trying to avoid the second select since the user already had to wait for the Matches cursor to be created. However, matches should have such a small number of records that it shouldn't matter.
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You're welcome.

>The reason I had the code in the activate rather than init method is that this page is part of a wizard. The wizard walks the user through ... collecting information as it goes and then uses that information to create the Matches cursor. I suppose I could tie the cursor after it's created as opposed to the activate < snip >

This sounds better to me...

I figured there must be some special circumstances here.