>The _TALLY == 1 was a surprise to me. Given Aleksey's reply, I see that the behavior is by design and will adjust my code accordingly. I still think that _TALLY will return 0 if the results are into a cursor--I'll test that later when I have the opportunity.
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John,

Hmmm...I just ran a test using SELECT * FROM < table > WHERE .F. INTO CURSOR... and INTO ARRAY... and in both cases, _TALLY returned 0. I suppose it could the SQL parser, but I tried some other expressions that couldn't be resolved beforehand wiwth the same result.