>Hi All
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>Would the use of the NOUPDATE clause further speed up access to shared tables on a network server that do not require data to be written to them but only read from them?

Haven't played with that since, let's see... 1990? The network was slow, and the theory was that by opening a table NoUpdate you told the OS that it doesn't have to poll you for locks, i.e. that you promise not to place locks on the file, so the network stuff would work a bit faster on that file. Don't remember whether that helped or not, I only remember that I had "noup" in a bunch of places then.

Then at some point I stopped doing that and didn't notice much difference.