Hi Jim

Have converted all remote views to local for test. The problem does not appear to be happening with local views (will know for certain in an hour) which I guess points to the OBDC driver? or the interface between them.

Probably not a flakey spot as am getting the problem on two computers and different hard drives. I may try across a network to rule out flakey network (faulty card). I wonder why it appears to occur consistently in the same places and why those places are different on different computers!

It may be a timing issue related to the number of updates.

Regards
Geoff

>Interesting about the different drive. I wonder if there might be a flaky spot on the original HD?
>
>Is this a new application or one that had been running fine before?
>
>Below is a list of fixes in SP1 that have either "remote" or "column" in them:----- start list
>Requery() on prepared remote view fails
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>Fatal exception on REQUERY() after tableupdate() to remote view with batchupdatecount = –1 and table buffering
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>Query processor fails to find column in SELECT list if it is enclosed in parenthesis, reports false "SQL: ORDER BY clause is invalid." error
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>SQLCOLUMNS() fails with complex names if at least one part of the name contains a space or other "illegal" character
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>Grid – Fatal exception setting value property in init of control in grid column
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>ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN to change character field to integer also changes value
>---- end list
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>Does the HD have "write behind cache" disabled. If not, be sure it is.
>
>Again, good luck
>
>
>>Hi Jim
>>
>>It is version 9 (no service pack) under Win XP on laptop
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>>Furthermore and forthwith
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>>On my laptop I pretty much get the problem in the same places. When I tried placing the data on a different physical drive the problem shifted and was less frequent. I'm not sure what this is telling me. Perhaps it is a caching issue.
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>>I am in the process of trying it on another computer.
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>>Regards
>>Geoff
>>
>>>What version of VFP?... On what workstation OS and Server OS?... Any wireless involved?
>>>
>>>good luck
>>>
>>>
>>>>Just an update.
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>>>>The problem does not appear to berelated to a corrupt index either (unless it is becoming corrupt but continued updates in the session). I deleted and recreated all tags on the affected files to no avail.
>>>>
>>>>ho hum
>>>>Geoff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi
>>>>>
>>>>>I am getting the above weird error when doing a TABLEUPDATE on a remote view. The remote database is a VFP database and the column refered to does not exist but it is not in the update list either.
>>>>>
>>>>>I seem to get error after a certain amount of records are processed.
>>>>>
>>>>>The strange thing is that if I repeat the TABLUPDATE command it works (appears to). Unfortunately, I also get a Window SERIOUS ERROR not long after. If I restart the process at the same position in the table where the error occurred it also works.
>>>>>
>>>>>Does anyone have I have any idea why it is occuring?
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards
>>>>>Geoff Scott