Cursor in Stored Proc

Hello,
 
I have DECLAREd a cursor in a stored proc, but error -5015 is thrown when
the compiler reaches the OPEN statement.
 
Any idea why?
 
There are 10 types of programmers: those who understand binary, and those
who don't.
 


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