David,
That's not what I meant:

update ox set i1 = xx.yy

Cetin

>Cetin,
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>>xx.yy syntax (where xx is an object) is also valid for controlsources, update/select/delete-sql statements etc.
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>ControlSources: yes, SQL and Xbase DML: no.
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>create cursor x1 ( i1 i )
>insert into x1 values ( 3 )
>scatter name ox
>replace ox.i1 with 5 && errors
>update ox set i1 = 5 && errors
>