Thanks for your reply.

i think that's for vfp 7 or 8. i foregot to mention that i work with vfp 6 - sorry.

>Select * from mytable into mycursor READWRITE
>
>>Hello everybody
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>>i need to create a cursor through a sql command which is not read-only. i think i have seen a solution here at UT before, but i do not remember it.
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>>thanks for any help in advance!