>>Steven,
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>>The main difference between Client and Server side cursors that the Client Side recordset is handled by OLE DB engine and the Server Side recordset is handled by OLE DB provider engine. VFP supports server-side cursors. See Re: OLE DB provider, .NET, and server side updatable rowset Message #819230.
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>But isn't all of the "SQL action" happening in the same memory space? Wouldn't that mean that there really is no server-side cursor?

Yes, but it's irrelevant when for Client and Server side cursors definition.