>>>Is there a way to perform a quick (binary) compare of two cursors to say if there are indentical?
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>>Mark,
>>
>>You can convert each of them to XML with CURSORTOXML() and compare resulting strings.
>Will it be faster that comparing cursors row by row, column by column?

For small cursors, I think it would be much faster. As the cursor gets longer and longer, it could take increasingly more time. Anyway, CursorToXml is very fast. Converting from Xml back to cursor takes more time.

Best luck,