>Not trying the code (yet)... until you try it with SET DELETED ON
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>SET DELETED OFF means you GET deleted records included.

Yes, but they only come back as 'deleted', if I set both ANSI and EXACT to OFF, and I can't make any sense out of why ANSI and EXACT control this behaviour. Is this documented anywhere?

In this case I actually want deleted records returned to the cursor as deleted records, and it was happening sometimes and not others, so through experiment and comparing by DISPLAY STATUS, I discovered that ANSI and EXACT were causing the issue. Still sounds like a bug to me.

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>>See line 12 in the code. Deleted is set off. Did you try running the code below? I'd appreciate it, and if you get different results, please let me know.
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>>>Well you do have SET DELETED OFF in your code.
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>>>>I just discovered that SET EXACT and SET ANSI affect whether or not a SELECT SQL statement will return deleted records as deleted or not.
>>>>
>>>>Am I the only person who didn't know this?
>>>>
>>>>According to the VFP9 help file in fact, SET EXACT is supposed to have no effect on a SELECT SQL statement at all. SET ANSI is supposed to affect how strings are compared in a SELECT statement. And I can't find anything in the help file to explain how deleted records are treated by EXACT and ANSI.
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>>>>So why do they both affect how deleted records are retrieved?
>>>>
>>>>Here is an example of what I'm seeing.
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>CLOSE DATABASES all
>>>>
>>>>CREATE TABLE test (field1 c(1))
>>>>FOR x = 1 TO 10
>>>>  INSERT INTO test (field1) VALUES (chr(x+64))
>>>>ENDFOR
>>>>
>>>>GOTO 8
>>>>DELETE
>>>>
>>>>CLOSE DATABASES all
>>>>SET DELETED OFF
>>>>SET ANSI OFF
>>>>SET EXACT OFF
>>>>
>>>>WAIT WINDOW "Ansi off, Exact off" NoWait
>>>>SELECT * FROM test	&& browse should show record 8 as deleted
>>>>CLOSE DATABASES all
>>>>SET EXACT ON
>>>>
>>>>WAIT WINDOW "Ansi off, Exact ON" NoWait
>>>>SELECT * FROM test	&& browse should show no deleted records
>>>>CLOSE DATABASES all
>>>>SET EXACT OFF
>>>>SET ANSI ON
>>>>
>>>>WAIT WINDOW "Ansi ON, Exact off" NoWait
>>>>SELECT * FROM test	&& browse should show no deleted records
>>>>CLOSE DATABASES all
>>>>SET EXACT OFF
>>>>SET ANSI OFF
>>>>
>>>>WAIT WINDOW "Ansi off, Exact off" NoWait
>>>>SELECT * FROM test	&& browse should show record 8 deleted again
>>>>