I would like to know if there is a way to return nTuples for a cursor without having to FETCH ALL from the cursor. I am sorting over 500k records and growing.. and return 1k at time from the cursor. But, It I also need to obtain the total number of records in the cursor without having to either do a SELECT count(*) of the same query or returning ALL from the cursor. It is entirely innefficient... Regards, Michael