As for CURSOR itself, while it's commonly used for "CURrent Selection Of Records" it predates GUIs and has been in conflict with more general usage to refer to the pointer ever since.
On second thought, it was a poor choice back then because AFAIK Cursor has always been used to describe the flashing insertion point in a text display.
Getting off topic.. :)
When I hear the word cursor I still think of the transparent sliding thingy on a slide rule. So when doing selects on two database tables, I conjure up this notion of the tables somehow sliding over each other, and the cursor reading off the intersection. That probably explains why I haven't progressed much with SQL syntax.
Dave
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