>We have run into a situation with a VFP8 database on a small peer to peer network. When a user tries to save a record, a message "Waiting on Lock" appears and it takes a long time before they can start entering the next record.
This seems to indicate that two users - or two forms, or two EXEs, on the same machine - are trying to lock the same record.
>We have Table buffering set to pessimistic row buffering. Would it help to change to optimistic row buffering?
I think this is quite possible: pessimistic buffering locks records as soon as the user starts modifying, if I understand correctly. Optimistic buffering will only lock the record when the user saves. This greatly reduces innecessary locking, as well as locking for too long a period.
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