Can you recommend where I would go and/or what I would read for these related functions and concepts?

>I think I understand why you say Hmmmm. It is indeed a decision about a fundamental principle in the technical design. And it may require some study time because there are some related functions and concepts too that need to be studied and practiced.
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>>Oh, I understand that I can turn oun buffering, all right. I've actually been working in another thread on that very concept.
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>>Of course, since it's not implemented now, I'd have to do some different work to make sure that the records get posted later ... right now, unbuffered, the changes are posted immediately.
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>>Hmmmmmm
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>>>But you can use CURSORSETPROP() just for that. See the example in the doc.
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>>>>No, I hadn't -- because I had never heard of it.
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>>>>However, for the case in hand, the table isn't being buffered, so I don't think it applies.
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>>>>>>I have a few fields on a stand alone table where I want to save a log of all changes.
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>>>>>>Do I write to the log file in the VALID method? And do I know that I need to do so by saving a flag that INTERACTIVECHANGE was called (in case they just tabbed through)?
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>>>>>Did you already read the help on GETFLDSTATE() ?