Hi, Steven
If the select statement found no results, the cursor 'mydura_holiday' could not be created, which would cause this error. Why not do :

If _tally > 0

since you are doing the check right after the select?

>Why would the following line 2 generate an error that Alias is not found?
>
>Select * From hdtbl Where hdate = _bldates InTo Cursor mydura_holiday
>If reccount("mydura_holiday") > 0 Then
>***
>EndIf