I try your suggestion involving intellisense and it still returns 0. I am going to compare the result in other versions now.

>IIRC, There was a bug in VFP8 Intelliseense that would reset _TALLY. Try to type it w/o space so Intellisence wouldn't kick in.
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>INSERT INTO test VALUES ("test")
>?_tally
>

There was also another bag with SET NOTIFY CURSOR OFF that affected _TALLY as well but it was increasing it.
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>>I never noticed this, but is now in the way. When I issue a INSERT command the _TALLY reports zero record affected when in fact it should be 1.
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>>CREATE CURSOR test (name c(10))
>>INSERT INTO test VALUES ("test")
>>? _tally
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>>Help indicates that it should return 1.
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>>Is my wrong here?