Tony Summers Wrote: "You can use cursors in SQL - and some 3rd party products have a proven track record of translating image calls onto SQL calls on the target database - but you would have to seriously consider the overhead of such an approach." While it is true that if you tried to run the same application on HP 3000 hardware using a RDBMS with cursors, the performace would likely be dismal, computers are commodity items today. You can get high performance computers that run UNIX, Linux and Windows that are very inexpensive. Our toolset, SunGard Bi-tech Transport is in use in hundreds of installations with good performance. Cursors are used underneath. Therefore, it has not been our experience that the above is an issue. Charles Finley 619-795-0720 * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *