To me, the cursor adapter is a remote view killer. It is like a cursor object with SPT automagically built in to it. If you have developed a good CursorAdapter base class, with just the changing of a couple of properties, you can switch backends seemlessly.

I developed my CA VCX Builder to create such a class. As long as my table structures are identical in a SQL Server and Oracle database, I really only have to change my connection, and everything still works. Same applies switching from DBF/DBC to SQL Server, Oracle or any other SQL backend.

If I change a table structure, I no longer have broken view issues. I just modify the CA for that table and move on.

>Can anyone point me to resources, preferably online, that explain the purpose and use of the CursorAdapter?
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>I've gone through the help file again, and still I don't follow exactly what it is providing me that I don't have already. Clearly I'm missing something glaringly obvious !!
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>TIA,
>Simon